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Updated 4 Dec 2024

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4 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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2

Coding Test Round

Hacker Rank 2 easy questions like first unique occurance in string

3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Java OOPS famous data structure time complexity 1 coding question easy.
4

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic HR Question Explain the projects that you have done.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - If you dont know then say I dont know but dont say wrong answers.

Account Assistant Interview Questions

user image Rohit yadav

posted on 5 Sep 2022

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2022.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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2

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Is it your first job
  • Q2. What is your hobby ? What is your status and could you work here

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for PayPal Account Assistant interview:
  • Accounting
  • Finance
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't be nervous to front of HR and answer gently and make sure your grooming is good and if you can't get the question then ask them for repeat don't answer it wrong

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Hashing based questions using maps

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - They will share a doc will all the topics to prepare for each round

Data Analyst Intern Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 1 Feb 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 4-6 weeks
Result
 -

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Feb 2023.

2 Interview Rounds

1

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself
  • Q2. Projects questions
2

Aptitude Test Round

Case details on economics and data. how would you use data to do XYZ?

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Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 12 Jul 2021

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Software Developer Intern Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 13 Jan 2022

I was interviewed before Jan 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Face to Face Round (4 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Technical round that lasted for around 60 minutes. The interviewer asked me questions based on DSA and OOPS concepts.

  • Q1. Dijkstra's shortest path You have been given an undirected graph of ‘V’ vertices (labeled 0,1,..., V-1) and ‘E’ edges. Each edge connecting two nodes (‘X’,’Y’) ...read more
  • Q2. OOPS Question

    Difference between C and C++

  • Q3. OOPS Question

    Difference between malloc and new

  • Q4. OOPS Question

    What is virtual function?

2

Face to Face Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Technical round that lasted for around 60 minutes. The interviewer asked me questions based on SQL and OOPS concepts.

  • Q1. DBMS Question

    Query to find nth highest salary

  • Q2. OOPS Question OOPS contains 3 classes A,B,C and they are in multi level inheritance, was asked about the use of public, protected and private members of A in B ...read more
  • Q3. OOPS Question

    Difference between Stack and Heap

3

HR Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

HR round that lasted for around 30 minutes. The interviewer asked questions to know more about me. We also discussed a puzzle.

  • Q1. Puzzle

    Hourglasses Puzzle

  • Q2. Basic HR Question

    Q1. Firstly was asked about the subjects I'm studying this semester
    Q2. Different questions about my projects
     

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAPaypal interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Software Developer Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 7 Jan 2022

I was interviewed before Jan 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Face to Face Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Technical Interview Round with questions based on Data structures, OOPS and SQL.

  • Q1. Delete a Node from Linked List You have been given a linked list of integers. Your task is to write a function that deletes a node from a given position, 'P...read more
  • Q2. DBMS Question

    SQL Query to find nth highest salary

  • Q3. OOPS Question

    Explain OOPS Concepts.

2

Face to Face Round (4 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Was asked me about my favorite technologies, What i liked about Facebook. And asked me to design a cinema ticket reservation web site­ like the one satyam has.

  • Q1. Kth largest element in the unsorted array You are given an array consisting of 'N' distinct positive integers and a number 'K'. Your task is to ...read more
  • Q2. OOPS Question

    What are virtual functions?

  • Q3. System Design Question

    Design a Cinema Ticket Reservation System.

  • Q4. Puzzle

    In how many attempts can one find a defective ball among 10 given balls after weighting it in a 2 weight weighting pan?

3

HR Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

HR round that lasted for about 30 minutes. The interviewer asked me questions to know more about me and a puzzle.

  • Q1. Basic HR Question

    I was asked about my projects and my extra­curricular activities

  • Q2. Puzzle

    There are three boxes, one box of blue balls, one green and one mixed ,all labelled incorrectly. In how many trials will I label them correctly ?

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAPaypal interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

SDE Intern interview

user image E-Learning Bridge

posted on 3 Dec 2021

Software Developer Intern Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 7 Jan 2022

I was interviewed before Jan 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 75 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Simple question based on strings was given. MCQs based on basic aptitude and programming questions were asked. 
Tips: Time management is important. Remember all the syntaxes

  • Q1. Reverse the String You are given a string 'STR'. The string contains [a-z] [A-Z] [0-9] [special characters]. You have to find the reverse of the string....read more
2

Face to Face Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was a good experience.
Tips: If you don't know something just tell them. Don't try to answer something if you don't know anything about it

  • Q1. One Away You are given two strings, string A and string B. Your task is to determine whether string A can be transformed into string B by performing only one of...read more
  • Q2. Remove Duplicates From String You are given a string (STR) of length N, consisting of only the lower case English alphabet. Your task is to remove all the dupli...read more
3

HR Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was easy. I could answer the first question. Second one I answered really badly

  • Q1. Basic HR Questions

    Q1. Explain the projects that I've done
    Q2. What did you learn about PayPal today?
    Q3. Why join PayPal?

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAPaypal interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Revise C++/Java. 
Tip 3 : If you don't know much of C++/Java at least write the codes in C. 
Tip 4 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 7 Jan 2022

I was interviewed before Jan 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This was an online test for 90 minutes. 2 programming questions and MCQs related to CS fundamentals were asked.

  • Q1. Cycle Detection in a Singly Linked List You have given a Singly Linked List of integers, determine if it forms a cycle or not. A cycle occurs when a node's ...read more
  • Q2. Palindrome Partitioning ll Given a string ‘str’. Find the minimum number of partitions to make in the string such that every partition of the string is a palind...read more
2

Face to Face Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Technical round that lasted for around 60 minutes. The interviewer asked questions related to data structures and algorithms.

  • Q1. DFS Traversal Given an undirected and disconnected graph G(V, E), containing 'V' vertices and 'E' edges, the information about edges is given us...read more
  • Q2. Cycle Detection In Undirected Graph You have been given an undirected graph with 'N' vertices and 'M' edges. The vertices are labelled from 1 to...read more
3

Face to Face Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Technical round that lasted for around 60 minutes. The interviewer asked questions related to data structures and algorithms.

  • Q1. Merge Sort Given a sequence of numbers ‘ARR’. Your task is to return a sorted sequence of ‘ARR’ in non-descending order with help of the merge sort algorithm. E...read more
  • Q2. Maximum Difference You are given an array 'ARR' of the 'N' element. Your task is to find the maximum difference between any of the two elements ...read more
  • Q3. Technical Question

    What is hashing and how can it be implemented?

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAPaypal interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.:

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

PayPal Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in PayPal interview for freshers?
PayPal interview process for freshers usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the PayPal interview process for freshers are Coding Test, Technical and Resume Shortlist.
How to prepare for PayPal interview for freshers?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at PayPal. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at PayPal expect are Financial Services, Analytical, CSS3, Change Management and Debugging.
What are the top questions asked in PayPal interview for freshers?

Some of the top questions asked at the PayPal interview for freshers -

  1. How many A4 sheets are sold in India per d...read more
  2. A recursive program to print numbers in ascending or...read more
  3. find the and return if the given file path existing in the given file hierarcy(...read more
How long is the PayPal interview process?

The duration of PayPal interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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