PPayPay India·Software Engineer

PayPay India Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

TokyoPosted Jan 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was first contacted by a recruiter via LinkedIn, and the early call focused on the company’s background and what the role could look like.

After that, I scheduled an online interview with an engineer, but communication required an interpreter to translate between Japanese and English.

That first technical discussion was more of a mapping exercise—talking through what I’d been doing in my current role and trying to connect it to how they work. A few days later, I received a generic rejection email with no real explanation. It felt like a lot of time and energy with very little clarity on what went wrong.

In another similar stretch of rounds, I also went through HireVue tasks and then a live conversation where the pace and

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