I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal in Jul 2021
Interview
It was a weekend hiring event. We were given the assignment to complete, the recruitment team sent the wrong assignment details to me. The whole event was badly unorganised.
After the Assignment, second round was on Data Structure and algorithm. It went well.
Third round was again on DS & Algo andJava. The interviewer was completely exhausted and was not even interested in listening to my answers.
Next day recruiter informed me that I have cleared all the round, next I will have a Hiring Manager round.
Fourth round was techno-managerial round. It went well.
After this interview recruiter informed me that I will have one final interview next day.
Fifth round was on DS and System Design. It went very good, the interviewer was impressed by my approach.
After 2 days, I received an email for submitting the documents. I sent all the required documents but never heard back from them. I wrote several mails to all the recruiter involved in this hiring and got no response.
I believe a candidate deserve a proper feedback and response from the recruitment team after investing all her/his time in preparation and interviews.
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After recruiter screening, there were four rounds. Two technical rounds, system design and hiring manager. Technical rounds were medium leetcode types. System design round asked about URL shortening service combined with hiring manager round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In technical rounds, sorting algorithm, array manipulation, java collection framework.
Two interviews, one just a general question interview asking basic questions like experience, why I want to work at paypal, weaknesses etc. Seciond was with engineer with system architecture questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions are sepcific to experience. Why you implemented this system using X instead of Y?
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Very responsive and understanding the candidate.
They cared about my concerns and changed the pace of the interview process. They listen to the candidate properly.
Very responsive and understanding the candidate.
They cared about my concerns and changed the pace of the interview process. They listen to the candidate properly.