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      Software Development Engineer (SDE) II Interview

      May 5, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Bengaluru) in Mar 2021

      Interview

      3 rounds of technical discussion and 1 round of Techno-managerial discussion. It was one of the worst hiring experience I had. Let me tell you I had more cancelled interviews than no of rounds I have appeared. They schedule an interview and then they cancel it. The recruiter I am interacting is the worst recruiter I have communicated with in my career. After Hiring manager round my feedback was positive but she says that the position is closed now. I get it, it’s okay just reject me then. No how can they reject someone after all positive feedback, so she said that she will be conducting one more Hiring manager round with another manager(As I have already cleared all technical rounds) and she will get it done within 2-3 days. I agreed and after that it’s once month and I tried calling 2-3 times and dropped few mails but they just ignored it without picking calls or replying. Wait the story is not over yet. I just thought it’s okay got to the hell, I don’t need an offer from you, I’m happy with whatever I have but No, after 1 month she calls again and asks for the last Hiring manager interview and also discussed on salary part and joining date as well. Oh I forgot to mention that one month back too she had this discussion of compensation and last working day. Anyway she again scheduled a last Hiring manager round with another manager. She also Called again to just let me know that she can not match the current offer I have in terms of fixed component and if I’m okay with some less number and I agreed. All Is well now and again after 1 month I have hope of joining them, but wait, I have just woke up and I check my phone and the Hiring manager round is again cancelled without and reply or mail stating the reason. I just want to reply a mail to her saying , go to the hell i don’t need a job offer from you. If you’re good and have a competitive offer, please don’t think about joining them. Every person in a company represents the culture of what’s happening inside and here is a story about their culture. PS - I’m still not sure if they want me in or not and they may approach again, but I have made my minds of not joining them now.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Technical discussion were mainly around data structure and algorithms. Question level were medium to hard and mostly around dynamic programming. Techno managerial round was mostly around system design and current project discussion.
      1 Answer
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      PayPal response
      5y
      Thank you for your feedback, we're sorry to hear about your experience. We constantly aim to create the best possible candidate experience, but admittedly things can always be improved. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process.

      Other Software Development Engineer (SDE) II Interview Reviews for PayPal

      Software Development Engineer (SDE) II Interview

      Jun 2, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Chennai
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at PayPal (Chennai)

      Interview

      i have given the interview and it went well also but I didn't got any call from hr I called her multiple time but they don't even pick the call worst behaviour ever

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      project related que, past experience
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      PayPal response
      2y
      Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We strive to provide an enjoyable and thoughtful interview experience where candidates feel they are getting the most out of the interview process. We apologize that you did not have this experience and would appreciate hearing more about your interview process and what we could do better. Please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com so we can connect. Thank you again for taking the time to leave a review and I look forward to hearing from you.

      Software Development Engineer (SDE) II Interview

      Feb 5, 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at PayPal

      Interview

      HR Round - Basic Demographics and Background match Screening Tech Interview - Pair coding 4 rounds ( Behavioral, 2 tech rounds, 1 design round) Coding questions Medium - Hard For the design round - Thoroughly prepare using grokking the system design using educative.io

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      General leet code or Hackerrank rounds
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      PayPal response
      3y
      Thank you for sharing your interview experience and welcome to the PayPal family!

      Software Development Engineer (SDE) II Interview

      Jun 25, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Sat home
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at PayPal (Sat home) in Apr 2021

      Interview

      1 coding round on hackerearth followed by 3 technical interviews. Took the test in Feb and received an interview invite in May(In feb they were specially looking for java developers and I was not so I told them hence my interviews got delayed). Got test link via applying through jobs portal.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Paypal Experience for 1.2 years Experienced Round 1 Problem: LinkedList Given a single Linked list, you need to swap the first and last element in the list. Problem: Given an unsorted array, you need to find the kth smallest element. I/p: [1,4,5,6,3,3,8] k: 3 o/p: 4 Problem: Pattern matching IP: String: 10000100000010010 Regex: 10*1 o/p: 3 Round 2 Problem: for each element, find the distance to the next greater element on the right of it. array [73, 72, 89, 76 , 71, 67, 62, 61, 82 , 90 , 12] indices 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 resulut [2, 1, 7 , 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, -1, -1 ] Problem: Merge two sorted linked list 1 -> 2 --> 3--> 4-->5 2--> 5-->15--> 19 Problem: Merge lists of sorted linked lists [ [1 2 3 4], [2 3 4 5], [4 5 6 7], [7 8 9 10] ] Round 3 (with hiring manager) problem: create bt from given list and print level order of that.(null are denoted as 0) 7 3 9 20 0 0 15 7 problem: One design question, 3 buttons present on the screen and clicked randomly, at any instant find out total clicks for past 1,2 3 hours or minutes or days of any button.
      1 Answer
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      PayPal response
      4y
      Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us, your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!