QuirkyBagel
QuirkyBagel

Paypal SE -Android experience

Applied to Paypal through a linkedin job post around mid May. Got reached out by their HR late in May for an Online Assessment round on Hackerrank.

OA was of 1 hour and contained 8 MCQ on Android and 2 DSA easy level leetcode - 2 sum + max profit.

Cleared that and 2 WEEKS later got asked to interview for a subject in depth and DSA round.

This round contained general Android knowledge and in depth language awareness questions(Kotlin based). Around the end of the interview, the interviewer asked to open any preferrer IDE and share the screen and then to write a solution for eliminating a target value from Integer array(can contain duplicates too) without using extra space.

Cleared that and went on to the 3rd round three days later which was essentially a repeat of the previous round but more conversational. The time ran out before any DSA Question could be asked.

Three days later got asked to interview for the Hiring Manager round which got scheduled and then got cancelled a day before the interview was supposed to take place.

Tabse leke ye haal hai. HRs are ghosting and seem clueless themselves. Their workday portal also has removed the link for the role I was interviewing for.

Who else has been through this haath ko aaya mooh na laga situation?

20mo ago
PeppyRaccoon
PeppyRaccoon
Vercel20mo

I read about a similar Paypal experience a few months back on LC

QuirkyBagel
QuirkyBagel
PayPal20mo

What the fuck are the HRs upto?

PeppyRaccoon
PeppyRaccoon
Vercel20mo

I've only heard bad things about Paypal HRs. There was a case of their HR shouting/threatening a candidate on call for not revealing current CTC lmao

QuirkyBagel
QuirkyBagel
PayPal19mo

UPDATE - Got reached out by PayPal again and was told the position I was being hired for had been put on hold indefinitely. There was another vacancy in a different team for which my candidature was moved ahead but another DSA round was needed before the HM round. In the DSA round Leetcode 278 was asked and I'm not sure if I'll be making it. 🙄

PeppyRaccoon
PeppyRaccoon
Vercel19mo

Why are you not sure? Isn't that a simple binary search question?

QuirkyBagel
QuirkyBagel
PayPal19mo

Apologies, it was 273. Integer to English words.

PerkyMarshmallow
PerkyMarshmallow

Happens more times than not. Just the game :( keep in touch. Maybe a few weeks months later it gets fine.

QuirkyBagel
QuirkyBagel
PayPal20mo

Bhai November se zindagi jhand hai. Inhone toh aur dimaag kharaab kar diya.

PerkyMarshmallow
PerkyMarshmallow

Hota hai :(

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