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Technical discussion were mainly around data structure and algorithms. Question level were medium to hard and mostly around dynamic programming. Techno managerial round was mostly around system design and current project discussion.
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) II

Interviewed at PayPal

3.6
May 5, 2021

Technical discussion were mainly around data structure and algorithms. Question level were medium to hard and mostly around dynamic programming. Techno managerial round was mostly around system design and current project discussion.

Paypal Experience for 1.2 years Experienced Round 1 Problem: LinkedList Given a single Linked list, you need to swap the first and last element in the list. Problem: Given an unsorted array, you need to find the kth smallest element. I/p: [1,4,5,6,3,3,8] k: 3 o/p: 4 Problem: Pattern matching IP: String: 10000100000010010 Regex: 10*1 o/p: 3 Round 2 Problem: for each element, find the distance to the next greater element on the right of it. array [73, 72, 89, 76 , 71, 67, 62, 61, 82 , 90 , 12] indices 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 resulut [2, 1, 7 , 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, -1, -1 ] Problem: Merge two sorted linked list 1 -> 2 --> 3--> 4-->5 2--> 5-->15--> 19 Problem: Merge lists of sorted linked lists [ [1 2 3 4], [2 3 4 5], [4 5 6 7], [7 8 9 10] ] Round 3 (with hiring manager) problem: create bt from given list and print level order of that.(null are denoted as 0) 7 3 9 20 0 0 15 7 problem: One design question, 3 buttons present on the screen and clicked randomly, at any instant find out total clicks for past 1,2 3 hours or minutes or days of any button.
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) II

Interviewed at PayPal

3.6
Jun 25, 2021

Paypal Experience for 1.2 years Experienced Round 1 Problem: LinkedList Given a single Linked list, you need to swap the first and last element in the list. Problem: Given an unsorted array, you need to find the kth smallest element. I/p: [1,4,5,6,3,3,8] k: 3 o/p: 4 Problem: Pattern matching IP: String: 10000100000010010 Regex: 10*1 o/p: 3 Round 2 Problem: for each element, find the distance to the next greater element on the right of it. array [73, 72, 89, 76 , 71, 67, 62, 61, 82 , 90 , 12] indices 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 resulut [2, 1, 7 , 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, -1, -1 ] Problem: Merge two sorted linked list 1 -> 2 --> 3--> 4-->5 2--> 5-->15--> 19 Problem: Merge lists of sorted linked lists [ [1 2 3 4], [2 3 4 5], [4 5 6 7], [7 8 9 10] ] Round 3 (with hiring manager) problem: create bt from given list and print level order of that.(null are denoted as 0) 7 3 9 20 0 0 15 7 problem: One design question, 3 buttons present on the screen and clicked randomly, at any instant find out total clicks for past 1,2 3 hours or minutes or days of any button.

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