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      R&D Software Engineer 3 Interview

      Jun 7, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal in May 2023

      Interview

      I am not sure if for the company this role means an architect or a team lead with designing and architecture skills. The process takes time around a month, but the HR team was very cool and supportive. But the technical interviews were a different story, I had three interviews, two of them were nice even if I didn't pass them they were kind and supportive, but the last one was with a manager and I feel that it was set to fail because I am not an architect yet and I had little time to give a solution for a design problem, 15 min. I propose several solutions but when more solutions provide more constraints, and considerations appears. The interviewer indicates that it takes several months to solve it.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Besides of speak my experience, I need to provide a solution for the following problem:, you need to indicate how you can separate users based on a configuration, that you don't know but it will change when the application user decides. This solution should consider that the selected users should be always in these selected groupp, even if the user turns off the computer or enters the next day the user still has the same group, until the configuration changes and maybe is possible that the configuration indicates that user will be in another group. Also you need to consider that the user will be not stored in any place and you cannot store it in any database. For more possible solutions I give more constraints came, making hard and difficult for the limit of the time
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      Thank you for your feedback, we're sorry to hear about your experience. We constantly aim to create the best possible candidate experience, but admittedly things can always be improved. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process.

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      • Candidates applying for R&D Software Engineer 3 roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PayPal overall takes an average of 25 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at PayPal as a R&D Software Engineer 3 according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  50%

        Skills test:  50%

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