PayPal Software Developer interview questions

An interview is an environment where neither of them present are there to impress each other but merely a brief time to understand, evaluate and share knowledge which might be of beneficial to the company hired for. Here are a few positives: 1. Basic questions. (Professionals with 1-2 years would be able to answer them) 2. The interviewer did not hurry jumping to the next questions. 3. I remember being stuck somewhere and I requested for a hint and I was provided. Let's go with the things which makes me image the work-ethic, the peers, the working atmosphere and the amount of empathy shown towards employees especially from the upper-management such as a Lead. For every questions I was asked, I was making sure to be vocal with my logic and what I would potentially do to solve the problem. I even went to the extent of typing it down as I speak. One cannot immediately start typing the code based on a question asked. We need time to think and form the logic. Despite this the interviewer seemed 'paranoid'. The interviewer even had the audacity to ask 'why are you not on video?' for which my reply polite and logical. This surely made me uncomfortable and lost all confidence in taking this forward. I honestly wanted to stop taking the interview then-and-there but that would seem unprofessional so I continued. This also raises questions on how the organization's cultural values(since each and every employee working there is an extension of the company itself). When one cannot 'trust' a potential employee over a simple interview process, how does one go about working ? I'm glad I did not hear back and even if I did, I would've politely declined taking it further. To the HR: 1. Train your 'professionals'. Please make sure they are professionals and personally equipped in handing interviews. 2. Interview is an environment where the interviewer is not given a timeslot to show-case his capabilities. 3. Empathy - Kindly empathize on this. Will take you a long way as an organization. To the future interviewers: Invest in a webcam especially one which probably gives a 360 degree video. :P

In first round, interviewer was really nice and helpful. He asked two coding questions we discussed some other possible ways that they could've been solved. In second round, interviewer asked lots of java questions about comparator vs comparable, different patterns like Singleton, Adapter, spring concepts like AOP. I did not answer lot of it, hence got rejected.