During the phone interview, I felt that C is a better language for solving the string problem than Swift, and it was not a Swift-language-specific question. I asked the interviewer if it was required to be solved in Swift, and he said no. I solved it, and he agreed that it was the right approach.

Later, to my surprise, they rejected me, stating the reason that "the candidate is not aligned with the tech stack and environment." As we all know, FAANG companies don't make a big fuss about the language as long as the problem is solved. It looks like people at PayPal give unnecessary importance to things like language. Good riddance!

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