PayPal

Software Engineer 3 Interview Experience - Chennai, Tamil Nadu

September 23, 2021

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

One screening round was completed. HR then scheduled three out of five interview rounds, stating that clearing the first three would lead to scheduling for the fourth and fifth.

The first round was a coding round, involving a binary tree problem. Time was exceeded, and following the interview, further rounds were canceled.

Questions

In a binary tree, given a target element, print the immediate infected items.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the PayPal Software Engineer 3 role in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral0%

Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for PayPal's Software Engineer 3 interview process in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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