Frontend Interview experience at PayPal | Failed in Dream Interview
SDE2 @ Paypal
Bangalore, India
Mar 2025
💸 Compensation Range
40LPA: Base + Bonus + Stocks
🏆 How landed on the interview?
Applied via - Referral
Round 1: Machine/Platform Coding
✅ Questioned on how JS Engine works?
✅ Implement a Nested File Explorer Component in React with the following requirements:
- The component should maintain a hierarchical structure in the UI.
- Each directory should persist its own expandable/collapsible state (just like VS Code).
- Implement Create, Rename, and Delete options.
I messed up managing some states, making things hard and couldn’t fulfill the last requirement.
Round 2: DSA
✅ Asked a DSA Problem based on strings (Find All Anagrams in a String)
✅ Write a polyfill of Lodash’s Flatten Method with the levels parameter.
✅ More questions around the performance, memory leaks & React.
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