PayPal | Software Engineer 2 | Banglore | Oct [Offer]

I interviewed for a Software Engineer 2 position at PayPal in , India in October . I had 2 years of experience as an SDE at a startup.

The interview process consisted of four rounds:

• Round 1: Online Assessment on HackerRank

  1. A hard-level DSA question, I partially passed the test cases with a brute force approach.
  2. A simple API design question.

• Round 2: Technical Interview

  1. Design a stack with the following operations in O(1) time complexity:
     • push() - adds an element to the top of the stack.
     • pop() - removes an element from the top of the stack.
     • findMiddle() - returns the middle element of the stack.
     • deleteMiddle() - deletes the middle element.
  2. Leetcode problem: Top K Frequent Elements.

• Round 3: Technical Interview

  1. Leetcode problem: Car Pooling.
  2. Questions related to Java, design patterns, and my current projects.

• Round 4: Hiring Manager Interview

  1. I was asked a standard DP problem from Leetcode: Partition Equal Subset Sum.
  2. Behavioral and project-related questions.