I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at PayPal (Chicago, IL) in Feb 2023
Interview
Braintree/Paypal
6 rounds of interviews: - 3 coding/problem solving - Project presentation - Hiring Manager - Core value/leadership with another manager (Asked about my Java/SQL skills instead).
The whole process took more than one month, after which I waited another month just to hear back from the recruiter with little to no communication. It's still unclear why they were taking too long to share the update and where in the process I needed improvement, knowing I was able to solve all the coding problems.
AI/ML coding: NLP use case that involves walking through how you would calculate word frequency (TFIDF) then what's the best method to measure vector similarity. **Job description does not mention NLP**
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standard leetcode, ML system design and behavior questions. each team process depends a lot on hiring manager's style of hiring and interviewing, had a really good interview with senior leader but not so great with younger and middle manager
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Interview was divided in 3 parts
1. Projects review - Did not go too deep. Asked which was most challenging
2. ML breadth - Multiple theoretical questions
3. DSA question - Medium level
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA question was given an array of integers, return another with product of elements except the element at index
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Took the initial Programming technical interview as practice despite not wanting the commute or the significant pay cut it would entail. Interviewer was professional, but if a company wants to ask questions like this without giving any interview prep, they should at least be offering competitive pay.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
A very difficult LeetCode "Medium" combining graph/tree DFS and string parsing.
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