PPayPay India·Backend Engineer

PayPay India Backend Engineer interview experience

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TokyoPosted Mar 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with a pre-interview stage where I was invited to answer multiple HireVue questions—mostly easy prompts that felt like they were pulled from common LeetCode-style patterns.

Then scheduling took over. I had to pick an interview time that was set about three weeks in advance, and the time slot itself meant it landed late in the evening, which made it harder to be fully sharp.

My first live interview was with an interviewer who had broken English. I still worked through resume questions and answered things like time and space complexity before moving into an additional coding question, but I kept having to ask for repetition and it was genuinely distracting. Two weeks later, I had another interview with a different interviewer who was kinder and more at ease. He

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