Hi All,

Recently I appeared for the PayPal interview. I had applied via LinkedIn referrals.

The following was my experience.

Round 1 - DSA/Problem Solving - 1 hour
2 LC Easy questions and some basic OOPS concepts.

Round 2 - Low-Level Design - 1 hour
Design a distributed room meeting scheduler for 2 organizations such that it can help schedule meetings between 2 people across the 2 organizations. It was an extension of https://leetcode.com/problems/meeting-rooms-ii/.

Functional Requirements:

• Ability to add an organization.
• Ability to add user's time table to the organization.
• Given 2 userIds and duration, return list of available time slots to schedule a meeting.

The intent of the round was more on the thought process and approach to the problem rather than working and executable code.

Round 3 - High-Level Design - 1 hour
Design a website to sell products of n categories. (Similar to Amazon/Flipkart).

The interviewer started off with just the above vague statement. Again the intent over here was to understand how you approach the problem statement, how you define the requirements.

The idea is to start simple. I started with just 3 pages (Product List Page, Product Page and Cart) and the entire discussion was around that.

Round 4 - HM round - 1 hour
Discussion around past projects and few behavioural questions.

Received an offer call in 2 days.
Offer Details