PayPal SDE 3 Interview

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SDE 3
April 17, 20255 reads

Summary

I had a positive interview experience with PayPal for an SDE 3 role, which involved three virtual rounds covering technical skills, system design, and behavioral questions, ultimately leading to a job offer.

Full Experience

Application :

No referral.

A recruiter reached out to me regarding this opportunity, and after I responded with the requested information, she promptly scheduled the first round of interviews for the very next day.

Interview Mode :

Virtual 3 Rounds in total.

Interview :

Round 1 : [Technical]

  • Basic introduction.
  • Basic discussion on my current job role & responsibilities.
  • Basic Java questions.
  • Java Streams API questions (Easy-Medium).
  • Data structure and algorithms. 136 - Single Number and 283 - Move Zeroes (Easy). Expected solution needed to be time and space optimized.
  • Basic SpringBoot related questions.

Overall a very positive experience. My current role matches task by task on what I will be doing at PayPal, thus giving a positive vibe on what to expect next.

Got a callback from the recruiter for scheduling the next round within an hour.

Round 2 : [Techno-Functional]

  • Basic Introduction.
  • Deep dive into my current job role & responsibilities.
  • Basic questions on OOPS concept.
  • Basic questions on multi-threading.
  • Basic design pattern and architecture questions.
  • Design question : High level discussion on designing a food delivery applications. Discussed on (different api endpoints that could be implemented, what will be the type of requests, etc) Just a basic discussion on how would I approach the given statement.
  • Few behavioral questions.

Overall a very positive experience. My current role matches task by task on what I will be doing at PayPal, thus giving a positive vibe on what to expect next.

Got a callback from the recruiter for scheduling the next round within a day.

Round 3 : [Hiring Manager Round]

  • Basic Introduction.
  • Deep dive into my current job role & responsibilities.
  • Tons of behavioral questions.

Verdict : Selected (HR informed me within 2 day).

Compensation Details :

Interview Questions (3)

Q1
Single Number
Data Structures & AlgorithmsEasy

Find the single element that appears only once in an array where all other elements appear twice. Expected solution needed to be time and space optimized.

Q2
Move Zeroes
Data Structures & AlgorithmsEasy

Given an integer array nums, move all 0's to the end of it while maintaining the relative order of the non-zero elements. Expected solution needed to be time and space optimized.

Q3
Design a Food Delivery Application
System Design

High level discussion on designing a food delivery application. The discussion covered different API endpoints that could be implemented, the type of requests, and a basic approach to the given statement.

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