PayTm Interview Experience:
Role: Senior Software Engineer(Backend)
Round 1: Online Assessment (OA)
- Duration: 63 minutes
- Format: 2 coding questions (medium-easy) + 6 MCQs (DSA theory around tree etc)
- Result: Passed ✓
Round 2: DSA Interview
- Duration: 1 hour
- Questions Solved:
- Smallest subarray containing both the min and max elements
- Aggressive Cows problem (variation)
- Outcome: I was able to solve both within the allotted time.
Round 3: HM / System Design Interview
- Duration: 1 hour
- Focus Areas:
- In-depth project discussion (impact, trade-offs, architecture, testing, future improvement).
- Scenario-based questions on scalability, fault tolerance, resilience, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and load balancing.
Result: Received an offer!
Timeline: Overall, the process took about one week (from the OA to the offer).
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