Paypal T23 - SDE 2 | Chennai | Sept 2024 | Selected
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Tier 3 College
YOE : 2.5 | Product based company

Sept 04 2024

Saw linkedin post from HR that they were looking for SDE 2  messaged her with my resume. Got a call within couple of hours and given the OA link

Sept : 07 2024
OA - 90 min

two questions
        1) OOPS - Need to design inerface and imp class - easy - done in 15 min
        2) DSA - using priority queue - hard - took 60 min

Sept 12 2024
Reached HR and confirmed that i have cleared OA

Round 1
Sept 23 2024 - 10:00 AM
DSA - planned 45 min took 1 hour
Interviewer : SDE 3 in chennai

1) asked to explain the logic for the OA Answers
2) dive deep into priority queue internal working - how heap works internally for get , add , delete
3) Given group of  strings and threshold value  Need to return true if all prefix with size threshold are equal 
    explained the approach , time and space and gave the code 
    follow - up : what if strings are sorted ? can we reduce time complexity ? 
	

Feedback : she is highly satisfied with my code and theory knowledge
TakeAway : should be good in DSA , time and space complexity

Round 2
Sept 25 2024 - 12:00 pm
Specialization round : 45 min
Interviewer : MTS 1 in chennai - Manager

    1) quick intro both of them 
    2) challenges faced in current project
    3) need to decrypt a string. i/o - "bcd" k = 2 o/p - "zab"
    4) mainly focused on production ready code instead of logic - 
            Eg : where will your make variables ?  how you seperate this method etc.. 
    
    5) didn't share the feedback . But myself did well with some of her help 

TakeAway : should write prodcution ready code eg : naming convenstions , good design pattern

Round 3
Sept 26 2024 - 4:00 pm
System design - planned 45 min | actual 70 min
Interviewer : MTS 1 in bengaluru

1) Design uber - 
		Functional requirments , Non functional requirment , estimation of data , which db will you use

2) Asked java questions 
		multithreading - Design two thread to make race condition , atomic integer
		hashmap - how works internally ? , make keys as pojo , how will find duplicate internally 

3) what LLD patterns you know
	Factory design
	Builder pattern 
	stratogy pattern 
	singleton 
	
4) what is transaction ? 

Feedback - he is okay - he said not good and not bad

Round 4
Sept 27 2024 - 2:00 pm
Bar raiser round - 45 min
Interviewer : Senior Engineering director - chennai

1) big introduction from both side
2) explained my projects i have worked on 
3) conflicts with cross teams 
4) how you deal with negative feedback from your manager
5) explain how you approach the tech issue with non tech customer 
6) fully behavioural and leadership questions

Feedback : didn't ask since it was kind of discussion not Q n A
TakeAway : stay honest if you have relevent answer then explain else simply say i don't have those kind of experiance.

Sept 30 - Recieved Mail that i have cleared all rounds

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