Paytm·Software Engineer

Paytm Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

BengaluruPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started on a rough note: the interviewer joined about five minutes late and then immediately sent me a direct LeetCode-style link.

The problem was to find the median in a data stream. From there, the session felt strangely silent—he didn’t really guide the way, and I worked on my own for roughly forty-five minutes.

I did manage to write code, but I failed one test case, and I was rejected right after. The instant rejection made it clear that they were strict about correctness and didn’t give much space for partial progress.

Even though the prompt itself was the kind of challenge I’d practiced, the combination of the quiet style and the one-test-case failure left me feeling like the evaluation happened with very

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