Paytm·Software Engineer

Paytm Software Engineer interview experience

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Positive

NoidaPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with DSA, and it was a mix that included an LRU cache question.

I was able to solve that part, which gave me some momentum. After that, the second round moved into a tree-based DSA problem, and I remember it being in that family of questions, though I couldn’t recall the exact prompt afterward.

What stuck with me most was that the process felt like it was testing depth through specific data-structure familiarity rather than broader themes. Since I didn’t get through, the tree problem was the moment where I ended up not meeting their expectations.

I walked away with the sense that the evaluation was pretty unforgiving: one solid success (the LRU cache)

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