PayPal

Software Engineer 3 Interview Experience - Bengaluru, Karnataka

October 3, 2023

Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

The interview process included several stages:

An online coding test.
A face-to-face coding interview where a sliding window program was requested.
A design round, during which the Mine game was to be designed with a modern touch.
A manager round, where no specific questions were asked.

Questions

Sliding window program.

Design a mine game.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the PayPal Software Engineer 3 role in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

PayPal's interview process for their Software Engineer 3 roles in Bengaluru, Karnataka is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for PayPal's Software Engineer 3 interview process in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

PayPal Interview Questions

Zigzag Conversion

Medium

Convert a given string into a zigzag pattern with a specified number of rows. Then read the characters row by row to return the converted string.

Strings

LRU Cache

Medium

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Linked ListsArraysDynamic Programming

Word Search

Medium

Determine if a given word can be constructed from letters in a 2D board, where letters can be used horizontally or vertically. Each letter can only be used once in the word.

ArraysStringsRecursionGraphs