I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Sept 2015
Interview
I am referred by an employee and got a call from project manager regarding interest and general questions. Later a telephonic interview which is stressed much on heaps. Then called onsite for 5 interviews which are mostly on heaps, arrays, hash maps, restful design, java basics, some backend design and a tree question. A decent coder can crack the interview which is not at all difficult. Later a Skype interview with hiring manager led to an offer.
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Ben is the former lead technologist in the Office of the CTO at Confluent where he has worked on a wide range of projects, from implementing the latest version of Apache Kafka’s replication protocol through to developing strategies for streaming applications. Before Confluent Ben led the design and build of a company-
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How am I today and what was the thing that helped most in life
Long process but very communicative throughout. Started with initial phone screen and then three more technical interviews. I found the interviews enjoyable and the questions to be well thought out. The recruiter and hiring managers were proactive in answering additional questions along the way and everything felt very transparent.
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Question 1
They asked about my technical background, previous projects I had worked on, how these experiences could be applied to the role I was applying for, standard questions