Airtel Payments Bank Software Engineer interview with cab-booking database design

After a recruiter call, I had an assessment and then a couple of deeper conversations. The first round checked coding and fundamentals. I worked through cab-booking-style queries, including how to normalize a database and what indexes to add on relevant columns. Java collections also came up, along with a linked-list DSA challenge. The technical discussion felt more like a guided deep dive than a…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.