🚀 PayTm Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience
Experience: 3 years 3 months
Current Role: Software Engineer, ~FAANG, India
Education: B.Tech, CS, Tier 1, India
Current Compensation: ₹33 LPA
📝 Application
- I noticed PayTm hiring for SDE role on the career portal
- I sent connection requests to PayTm Recruiters on LinkedIn and once of them replied
- The recruiter called me after a week and said he will schedule Round 1
💻 Round 1: Technical Screening Round
Duration: 60 minutes
The interviewer had ~6 YOE and asked me questions around:
He started with:
- Introduce yourself
- Then, current tech stack and role
- Finally, a detailed question and deep dive on my "AI Project" in current role
After this, he asked me a variation of:
After this, he asked me:
- LLD: How do you handle double booking in a system like PayTm concert ticket booking and some follow ups on this
- HLD: Message Queue - Difference between RabbitMQ and Kafka
Finally, I asked him questions around what his team is doing, what tech stack they use and why they made those decisions.
Verdict: ✅ Selected
📌 Final Outcome
The recruiter said that since I have cleared the Screening Round, now I will have 2 Onsite Final Rounds and that's all.
But it's been more than 2 weeks since the Round 1 and the recruiter hasn't been able to schedule another round and at this moment, he has started ghosting my messages as well. And now neither am I interested in pursuing this any further since the salary isn't high enough.
❌ Ghosted
Note
- Giving Senior Software Engineer to a person with 3+ YOE with FAANG Background
- Senior Software Engineer Salary he told me: 27L Base + 3L Bonus
- Work From Office: Noida
📌 All Interview Outcome
I have been applying to jobs since May 2026 and actively interviewing. Below is the list of companies where I have interviewed till now. Will keep updating this.
