Sprinklr interview process (2026)
Round-by-round breakdown of the Sprinklr software engineering interview across 3 levels and 13 rounds: interview mode, sample questions, and worked solutions.
Product Engineering Intern (Campus)
Difficulty: Hard · Timeline: ~2-3 weeks (campus drive) · Recommended prep: 10-12 weeks · Cooldown: Next campus season
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Round 0: Online Coding Test (HackerEarth)
Assessment · ~90 min · difficulty 4/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Online assessment
Sample question: Build a trie-backed search engine: support insert(word), query(prefix) returning how many inserted words start with that prefix, and update(word) adjusting its weight. Handle up to 10^5 mixed operations efficiently.
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Round 1: Technical Interview 1 - DSA + Puzzles
Onsite · ~45 min · difficulty 3/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: You can climb 1, 2 or 3 steps at a time. Count the distinct ways to reach step n (n up to 10^5, answer modulo 1e9+7). Follow-up: convert 2147483647 into English words.
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Round 2: Technical Interview 2 - Advanced DSA + Projects
Onsite · ~60 min · difficulty 4/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Given a binary matrix of 0s and 1s, return the area of the largest rectangle containing only 1s (hint: histogram + monotonic stack per row).
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Round 3: HR Round
Behavioral · ~30 min · difficulty 1/5
Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview
Product Engineer (New Grad / 0-2 yrs)
Difficulty: Hard · Timeline: ~3-4 weeks · Recommended prep: 10-12 weeks · Cooldown: ~6 months
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Round 0: Online Assessment (3 problems: 50/75/100)
Assessment · ~90 min · difficulty 4/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Online assessment
Sample question: A robot moves only right or down in an m x n grid where some cells contain obstacles. Count the number of unique paths from the top-left to the bottom-right cell. Follow-up: return the count modulo 1e9+7 for large grids.
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Round 1: DSA Interview 1
Onsite · ~60 min · difficulty 4/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Design a data structure that supports addNum(int) and findMedian() over a stream of integers, both in O(log n) / O(1). Then extend it: how would you find the median of a sliding window of size k?
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Round 2: DSA Interview 2
Onsite · ~60 min · difficulty 4/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Given an array of n non-negative integers, find the maximum value K such that at least K elements are greater than or equal to K. Target O(n log n) or better; explain why binary search on the answer works.
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Round 3: Technical Round 3 - Resume Deep-Dive + Hard DSA
Onsite · ~60 min · difficulty 3/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Design and implement an in-memory file system: mkdir(path), addFile(path, content), ls(path) returning sorted entries, and delete(path). Which data structure backs it and why?
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Round 4: HR Round
Behavioral · ~30 min · difficulty 1/5
Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview
Senior Product Engineer (2-6 yrs)
Difficulty: Hard · Timeline: ~3-5 weeks · Recommended prep: 6-8 weeks · Cooldown: ~6 months
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Round 0: Recruiter Screen
Phone · ~30 min
Mode of interview: Remote phone or video interview
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Round 1: Coding Round - Hard DSA
Onsite · ~60 min · difficulty 5/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Given an n-ary tree rooted at node 1 (as parent-child edges) and two nodes u and v, return their lowest common ancestor. Discuss the DFS-order approach, then how you would answer 10^5 LCA queries fast (Euler tour + sparse table or binary lifting).
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Round 2: System Design + CS Depth
System_design · ~60 min · difficulty 4/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Live system design interview
Sample question: Design the notification pipeline for a CXM platform ingesting millions of social-media events per day: Kafka topic/partition layout, consumer-group scaling, dedupe and retries, and where caches sit on the read path. Be ready to live-code an LRU cache and justify every index on the hot tables.
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Round 3: Hiring Manager + HR
Behavioral · ~45 min · difficulty 2/5
Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview
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Worked sample solutions (code, design diagrams, and STAR answers) for every round are available in the FAANGPlus app: open interview processes.