Paytm Interview Experience for SDE | On-Campus 2021
Interview Experience
Paytm came to our campus at the beginning of August (2021) virtually. There were total 4 Rounds,
Coding Round followed by 2 Technical and 1 HR Interview Round.Round 1(Codi...
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Paytm came to our campus at the beginning of August (2021) virtually. There were total 4 Rounds,
Coding Round followed by 2 Technical and 1 HR Interview Round. Round 1(Coding Round – CoCubes): 70 minutes Total 3 Questions based on Tree, BST, and Linkedlist. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/sum-numbers-formed-root-leaf-paths/ Around 40 students were shortlisted for the later rounds. The interviews were to be held on gmeet platform. Round 2(
Technical Interview Around 1 hr): Started with what's your fav. language, rate yourself out of 10! Java questions - new features of Java8, OOPs - abstraction vs encapsulation, abstract class vs interface Internship project discussion DBMS - Indexing, normalization, and their forms Asked what's your fav. data structure? then write code in word for Zig zag traversal of tree, merge 2 sorted linkedlist without using extra space or pointers (Hint: recursion), reverse linkedlist using recursion In the end, he asked if I have any questions for him. I was not selected for further rounds. There were 2 more rounds Technical and HR round. Total 22 students got selected. Tip: Speak whatever you are thinking while you are solving DSA.
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This is a candidate experience report from a paytm interview for a swe role (intern level) during the recruiter round reported in 2025.
It covers the following topics: Recursion, Binary Tree, Linked List, Trees .