I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Bengaluru) in Dec 2020
Interview
A recruiter from Paypal reached out to me in November 2020 about a position with their Enterprise platforms team within the Paypal Technology Platforms and Experience group. They sent me a coding challenge once I expressed interest. They came back for an interview in December. There were two rounds of technical interview. This was followed by an interview with a manager in mid-December. Didn't hear back for a couple of days. They asked for another manager interview. After that I didn't hear back from them for 2 weeks despite following up twice. I called up the recruiter who finally rejected me in January.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. The first technical round had an object oriented design question (along the lines of designing classes for an apartment system) followed by a question for printing numbers in a triangular pattern.
2. The second round was interesting. The interviewer started with a trick math question. He followed up with a dynamic programming question. Didn't stop there. He asked around 9-10 questions in total covering topics like trees, graphs etc. Most of them didn't involve coding and the interviewer was satisfied with an explanation and pseudocode. All the questions were simple except for the math trick questions.
3. The two manager rounds had situational questions, discussions of general design approaches.
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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