I didn\'t find much resources on leetcode or on google in general about PayU\'s interview process so thought of helping the community with my experience.\n\nA recruiter contacted me through Naukri and asked for the details like work experience, salary expections etc post which I got interviewed for Senior Software Engineer position at PayU Gurgaon.\n\n**1. Round 1: Programming**\nIt was on a platform called Intervue where you\'re expected to write and run complete code along with test cases.\n\nQ1: https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/613816/Google-or-Onsite-or-Meeting-Rooms-3\nQ2: https://leetcode.com/problems/subdomain-visit-count/\n\nI could solve both of them.\n\n**2. Round 2: Problem Solving, Fundamentals**\nI got an update from the recruiter within 2 days asking for the round 2 availability. \n\n*Programming*: https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-right-side-view/\n*Fundamentals*: What happens when you type www.google.com (or any site) in browser, SOLID principles, some questions on Memory Leak, Multithreading, Java StringBuilder etc. \n\n**3. Round 3: Hiring Manager**\nAgain recruiter updated me within 2 days for next round. That\'s when things started going in the wrong direction. At first interviewer didn\'t join, I had to call my recruiter after which the interviewer joined from his Phone, he was driving somewhere. I asked whether he wants to reschedule but he insisted to continue. He didn\'t ask any question related to technical stuff *(I was expecting LLD/HLD)* and started asking me irrelevant stuff. I felt I was wasting my time so asked him myself whether he has any design level question and he replied "not needed". At the end he made a statement like "*not everyone can go to IIT, so people go for some tier 3 colleges, may be you should also follow the same!*". He was 16+ years experienced and I found him very arrogant and not at all professional. I didn\'t react and ended the conversation with a smile.\n\nNext I got an update from recruiter that they are rejecting me as I couldn\'t come up with Database schema *(Offcource this was just some random feedback which the interviewer thought of typing as our discussion didn\'t even go in the technical direction)*. I thought of sharing the same to HR and he scheduled another HM round with a different interviewer. \n\n**4. Round 3(II): Hiring Manager**\nThis was a really good discussion and couple of questions related to HLD fundamentals were asked and at the end he also asked one DSA question similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/container-with-most-water/. Overall I was confident about this round.\n\nI was expecting a callback but it didn\'t happen. When I called the recruiter he said, I have cleared all the rounds and asked me to share the documents(salary slips etc) after which I recieved an invite for HR round in which HR again didn\'t join. When I called the recruiter he said it was his last working day and he left early.\nI asked for a reschedule and ofcourse that didn\'t happen. After this the recruiter started ignoring my calls/emails and since I\'ve had enough red flags already I too stopped.\n\n**Overall Experience: Pretty Bad**\nThis experience could be subjective but it felt like I wasted almost a month in clearing their interview process just to get ghosted by them. *(He is still posting on LinkedIn that he is hiring and all. :) )*\nThere can be just one reason for ghosting here, my salary expectations didn\'t match their budget but this was something I shared in the very beginning itself. I feel they consider multiple people for one job and whosoever puts the least expected salary gets the offer.

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