PayPal | SDE-1 | Virtual | OCT-2021 | Rejected

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Status: 2020 Grad , Normal Private College (Tier 3/4)
Company at that time : Infosys (Digital Specialist Engineer)
Position they offer: SDE1
Location: Banglore , INDIA
Date: OCT 2021
Applied Through : Carrer Portal , Referral

I don't know how they got my resume because I applied multiple times via portal and sent many requests to LinkedIn connections for Referral.

This is for SDE-1 Java developer Backend 2021.

1. Online Assessment [HackerEarth] [1.5 hours]:

Coding Questions:

3 Questions which is competitve programming based , there is no language constraints you can use any language
2 of them are Easy-Medium but 3rd one is hard (DP + Graph )
I was able to solve 2.5 question and moved to second round.

2. Online Assessment [HackerEarth (JAVA)] [1.5 hours]:

Coding Questions:

2 Questions which is competitve programming based , there is language constraint ,you can use only JAVA.
1 of them was Medium but 2nd one is hard(based on heap) , but fortunately I was able to solve all.

3. Technical Round 1 [Face2Face (Virtual) ] [1 hour]:

DSA , OOPS , and JAVA Questions:

Brief Introduction of myself .
Given a map of < Name (String) , Age (Int) > , you have to delete all the names whose age is greater than 20 , without using extra map , you have to delete inplace.
I tried this in both cpp and java , but in both I failed actually whenever we delete some value of map while iterating it will behave improperly.Learned something new after this round.
OOPS Concepts like polymorphism , inheritance , real life examples.
JAVA questions like Interface vs abstract class , collections etc.
Print all the Special numbers in the range of [1 , 10^9].
Special Number : A number is special if the difference of adjacent digit is 1.
For Ex : 12 , 23 , 34 , 121 , 1232 . . . . .
Solution -> 1) Brute Force 2) Use BFS

4. Technical Round 2 [Face2Face (Virtual) ] [1 hour]:

DSA , OOPS, and Project Questions:

Brief Introduction of myself .
https://leetcode.com/problems/find-the-winner-of-the-circular-game/ ( they will kill alternate , 1st will kill 2nd , 3rd will kill 4th ...)
OOPS Concepts like polymorphism , inheritance , real life examples.
Mostly Asked JAVA Interview questions.
Asked about Design patterns , I told him I know names and few of them , never used practially.
Asked about my project in Infosys.

Recruiter told me that your all rounds are very good , we will move to final round.

5. Hiring Manager [Face2Face (Virtual) ] [1 hour]:

DSA , Project ,and LP (Leadership Principles) Questions:

Brief Introduction of myself .
Asked about my project , and sadly it seems either I am not able to explain him properly or he didn't found my project/work that much intresting.

He : Tell me from last some months what extra you did , frankly speak becuase on work level I don't think you have enough experience .

Now I was like , God please please I am in 5th round and this is HM , please ye nikalwa do .

Me : DSA.

He : Ok , so now tell me which DS you know .

Me : Arrays , Stack , queues , heaps .

He : Or ?

Me : Graph , DSU(Disjoint Set-Union) , and Tries.

He : Oh great , what is this DSU please explain

Me : I explained , with proper diagram.

He : Ok but what is the practical use , or where we can use this DS and technique.

Me : Yes we can use in MST (Minimum Spanning Tree) , I gave an example , but wait actually he asked why the cost from A to B is not minimum , I am confused too actually he mixed up the MST with Dijkistra and whole discussion is going in this direction only , my motivation already goes down and after this question they asked me some general questions on LP.

Final Result : PayPal recruiter really ghosted me , I tried to contact with them for a month continously via mail and call , but there is no response .

After a month I got call from another recruiter for hiring but sadly they hire for 2021 batch , but I shared my above incident and requested please check some how result and she checked and confirmed I was Rejected in Hiring Manager (as expected) Round.

Really I was very sad , I tried my best but rejeted ultimately 😭.

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