I applied in-person. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at PayPal in Aug 2021
Interview
Round#1 - Two Data structures questions.
Interviewer was very helpful and giving ideas
Round#2 - Had to ask for an update then they scheduled Second round. Got rescheduled couple of times and ultimately Interviewer didn't turn up for the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nested Data stricted Flattening
Constructing height balanced tree from an array
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at PayPal in Dec 2020
Interview
Had 2 rounds of interview, both of them were based on behavioral & past experience. Recruiting team was super helpful and provided all the help in getting ready for the interview as well as throughout the on-boarding process.
First round was an hour long video call with team lead and the questions were mainly based on behavioral & experience with technologies that the team uses. No technical/coding questions.
Second round involved a one hour video interview with two of the team members where I was asked couple of technical questions and I had to talk thoroughly about my approach and a system design question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design your backend architecture for a recommendation service based on user preferences & behavior.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at PayPal (Bengaluru) in Mar 2021
Interview
The first round was a coding challenge. Two questions were asked from Leetcode/Hackerrank The difficulty level was pretty high. 1.5 hours were given to solve 2 questions. The first coding problem was given the highest weightage.