PayPal Data Analyst Interview
This interview focuses on analyzing a realistic checkout scenario, quantifying trade-offs, and recommending policy changes. It also involves identifying issues in transaction failures, designing experiments, and convincing stakeholders.
8 minutes
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Questions that have appeared at PayPal for an engineering (Case Study) interview.
1. Architecture and System Design
Question: Can you describe a scenario where you had to design a highly scalable system? What architectural patterns did you use?
Question: How would you structure a payment service to handle millions of transactions per day?
Question: If you were in charge of improving the performance of a slow system, what steps would you take?
2. Problem Solving
Question: Describe a challenging problem you faced in your previous experience and how you solved it.
Question: How would you troubleshoot a service that has suddenly started to perform poorly?
Question: Explain how you would handle a feature request that could potentially degrade the performance of the system.
3. Data Security
Question: How would you go about ensuring data security in a payment system like PayPal?
Question: How would you handle a potential data breach?
Question: What measures would you take to ensure the secure storage of sensitive customer data?
4. DevOps and Continuous Integration
Question: How would you implement a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for a complex service?
Question: How would you ensure the reliability and robustness of the CI/CD pipeline?
Question: What strategies would you use to roll back a failed deployment in production?
5. Incident Management and Postmortem Analysis
Question: Describe an incident that caused a significant outage in your past experience. How was it handled and what were the lessons learned?
Question: How would you approach conducting a postmortem analysis after a major system outage?
Question: How would you handle an incident where a critical service is failing and affecting customers?
About This Interview
Interview Type
PRODUCT SENSE
Difficulty Level
4/5
Interview Tips
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