SDE 3(Python) - Paypal || Interview Experience
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6.2 YOE - Working in Product Based Company

Recruiter reached out on mail with opportunity and a hackerrank link for Online Assesment.

HACKERRANK ROUND - 3 hours
The hackerrank link consisted of 4 questions :

  1. First question was related to Object Oriented Programming
  2. Second was related Purchase Optimization - It had different patterns related to prefix sum, binary search and greedy similar problem on leetcode are - https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-number-that-sum-of-the-prices-is-less-than-or-equal-to-k/description/ and
    https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-number-of-robots-within-budget/description/
  3. Two MCQ's related to Authorization - 401 and 403 errors and cache-control header
  4. Last question was related to SQL querying - It was HARD - I wasn't able to attempt it
    The overall time was 3 hours - I was able to attempt and solve the first 3 questions

Cleared the hackerrank test - Recruiter reached out via call to schedule 1st round

1st ROUND - DSA 45 Mins
The interviewer gave me an list of values and asked me create a Linked List and then gave a tuple which contained a value to remove from the LL and and another value to add to LL at a different place
and remove all occurances of the value - I was able to complete the code and show the working code.
Result - selected

2nd ROUND - System Design 45 Mins
The interviewer asked me the system design of BookMyShow - Worked om HLD but asked for LLD for seating arrangement of a screen - wasn't able to solve the problem clearly.
Result - Rejected in Round 2

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