PPayPay India·Backend Engineer

PayPay India Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

TokyoPosted Jun 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an online coding exercise with two questions, both fairly direct LeetCode-style problems.

One was about the word ladder problem, and the other round ended up circling around how to think through transformations and shortest paths. After that, I went into a Zoom interview where the technical scope felt like a mix of security fundamentals and low-level Java details. I remember covering HTTP vs HTTPS, encryption/decryption concepts, hashing, and even specific Java keywords like final, volatile, and threadLocal.

Near the end I asked what actually motivated the interviewer to work at PayPay, and I got a kind of blank reaction, so I clarified with an example about whether it was

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