PayU Software Engineer interview experience

In the first technical step, they asked Java basics with a few straightforward programming questions. After that, the next round stayed anchored in Java fundamentals and concepts, but it ramped up with multiple coding questions pulled from typical LeetCode-style problems.

The format felt very hands-on. I didn’t just talk theory—I had to write and reason through solutions as the conversation progressed, and the questions were clear enough to follow but still required careful implementation. At one point, I was working through problems where I couldn’t reach the optimal approach right away, so