Status: 7 YOE, BE IT from tier3 College
Position: SDE 3 at PayPal
Location: Chennai
Date: 20/02/2023

Round 1: HackerRank test with two medium level question(LC) sorry I dont remeber the question exactly.

Round 2: Technical Round one in this round Interviewer asked me 3 Questions

1. Convert a decimal number to hexadecimal number .
2. String compression question. eg: i/o: aabbbcdde o/p: a2b3cd2e. Famous question in LC.

Round 3: Technical Round Second this was mix of java ,Spring and HLD .

1. How Spring boot application works , hibernate questions .
2. Garbage collector algorithims , string questions .
3. Interviewer asked me to design a parking lot system with multiple floor parking and it should also accept online booking of parking and allow multiple vehicle parking and how will you scale and what database architecture will you used.

Round 4: Hiring manager round .It was alomost managerial round that talks about team conflicts , how to resolve cross team dependecy . Where you see yourself down the line after 5 years . It was general interview not such technical .

I clear all rounds and got selected .
Thanks !!

Compensation post :- https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/3214825/paypal-sde-3/1830727