Disney+ Hotstar Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Disney+ Hotstar.
Disney+ Hotstar
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding System Design
The interview started with a coding round where I was asked a medium-difficulty question from GeeksforGeeks. Then, there was a system design round, which was pretty good, and they asked me to design a video streaming pipeline. Unfortunately, I got rejected after the second round, so I'm not sure about any subsequent stages.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- A medium coding question from GeeksforGeeks was asked in the coding round.
- In the system design round, I was asked about designing a video streaming pipeline.
Disney+ Hotstar
Software Engineer Intern
Intern Difficult Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
The interview process involves one online coding challenge with easy to medium difficulty, similar to HackerRank problems. Following that, there's a DSA interview with medium to hard difficulty questions, conducted on a pair-programming platform. The difficulty level is comparable to LeetCode questions.
Confirmed questions1 question
- A DSA question involving an array was asked.
Disney+ Hotstar
Software Engineer
Mid Difficult Positive experience No offer 6 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen Background check
Interview formats
Technical Coding System Design Behavioral
Got a call from a recruiter about the job. The whole thing had 6 stages. First was DSA, covering medium to hard stuff. Second was Android-specific, digging deep into domain knowledge. Third was LLD, where I had to design an Android app. Fourth was with the Hiring Manager, discussing my overall experience and exposure. Fifth was the Bar-Raiser, who asked behavioral questions, talked tech about my experience, and did a quick LLD round. Last was HR. Got cut during the Bar-Raiser round. The whole process took about a week to 10 days.
Confirmed questions5 questions
- What is a Min heap question on minimising the cost while merging buckets?
- Design an app for Android with APIs.
- Design an app with architecture.
Disney+ Hotstar Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Disney+ Hotstar interview reports.
“Given two strings, find the minimum number of operations (insertions, deletions, or substitutions) required to transform one string into the other.”
Read reports →“Given a non-decreasing sequence and an integer k, determine the count of elements remaining if each element can appear at most k times. For instance, with k=2 and the sequence 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4, the result is 1 2 2 3 3 4 4, thus 7 elements remain.”
Read reports →“Can you find the index of a given key within an infinitely sorted array, returning -1 if it's absent?”
Read reports →“What is the number of permutations of an array that would result in the same binary tree structure?”
Read reports →“For two arrays A and B of length m and n, what's the minimum number of operations (adding/changing elements) to make A identical to B?”
Read report →“What if the base set of words was a stream instead of a list, could you still find if a new string is an anagram?”
Read report →“What is the minimum number of characters needed to be added to the beginning of a string to make it a palindrome? (Referencing GeeksforGeeks link provided)”
Read report →“Can you determine if a query string is an anagram of any string in a given array of strings?”
Read report →“Given a stream of characters of unknown size, can you determine if a given pattern is matched?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 144 Disney+ Hotstar interview reports.