Paycom Software Engineer interview experience (2023)

Paycom Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Oct 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an OA and then an online interview built around an easy-to-moderate coding problem about checking string relationships—whether two strings matched regardless of order, or whether one appeared as a substring regardless of order.

The interviewer quickly framed how they wanted me to solve it, essentially telling me not to focus on the most optimal approach.

I tried to think through a clean solution and implemented something that worked, but later I could tell the interviewer wanted a very specific “practical” method that didn’t optimize for performance. When my approach still worked, it sounded like they were surprised, and that pushed the conversation off balance. Midway through, I realized I wasn’t going to get aligned on what they expected, and I ended up feeling like my time was being used to match their preferred

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Paycom Software Engineer interview experience

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