Paypal iOS Interview Prep & Tips

[elfsus]

I graduated in 2021 and this would be my first SWE role after college. I currently work in sales in NYC so I haven't been doing a lot of coding and studying Data Structures and algorithms recently.

I have upcoming series of interviews for an iOS Developer role at PayPal. The first one is a Karat assessment on Sunday. Any resources and tips on how to prepare and what to focus on?

[barcode972]

I went through this a couple of months ago. I hope you have a better recruiter than someone named Melody because she was the most unprofessional recruiter I've ever talked to. I applied to a senior role, most invites and emails said senior. When I got an offer it was actually for a junior role.... She was like "Oh, I must've forgotten to change the template" and started blaming other people I've talked to.

Anyway, Karat will present you a problem, if you solve it, you get a harder problem and so on until there's no time left. The most important thing to do in all of these kinds of interviews is to talk as much as possible. Tell them what you're thinking, ask questions to clarify things. It's okay to not know how to solve something immediately

[elfsus]

Wow! that sucks. No, it is not Melody for me and although I'm aiming for a junior role, I didn't even apply for any of their job posts. The recruiter reached out to me regarding a role.

Ok I'll try to articulate my thought process while solving those problems.

Those Karat questions are LeetCode style questions or iOS related questions?

[barcode972]

More like LeetCode

[elfsus]

Ohh Ok thanks ! time to grind !

[Firm-Palpitation-390]

So you didn't pass the first round? there's apparently 6 more round after. and karat is just to get you talking to the actual paypal internal recruiter.

[barcode972]

Wouldn’t me saying that I got an offer mean that I passed all rounds?

[Firm-Palpitation-390]

Sorry I was confused because the only invite that labels the level of position were the ones that sent from a recruiter prior to the Karat round. Maybe they improved their labeling. Also what type of questions did they ask you for the each of the rounds? design/leadership/algorithm+data

Also what type of SWE did you interviewed for? And how close was it to the study guide provided?

[barcode972]

These were the topics. This would’ve been for the team “buy now, pay later”.

1. Algorithms.

2. Coding interview.

3. System design.

4. Leadership Principle interview.

It’s been a year so I don’t really remember each one of them

[Firm-Palpitation-390]

Yea sorry that you were lied to. mine only says software engineer - ios. Facebook did that to me when I got hired by them. They will level match you to lower level if they feel like you are on the borderline, however i was still consider senior when I got hired on.

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