Paytm interview experience Real time questions & tips from candidates to crack your interview

Business Analyst

Paytm
upvote
share-icon
2 rounds | 8 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

expand-icon
Journey
I started my journey by getting admission to DTU. After exploring different courses and trainings, I finally decided to start learning about data analysis. For this, I took a course from Coding Ninjas. The course helped me build some good projects, which played a key role in helping me crack the internship at Unified Mentors.
Application story
Paytm had arrived on campus for hiring candidates. The application process was very simple. They provided us with a website where we had to apply for the job. After this, our resumes went through screening and shortlisting. After 2–3 days, I received a call for a telephonic round, followed by an email for the online test.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I was not selected as I couldn’t solve the SQL problems properly. Also, the time was very limited, so a few MCQs went unattempted, and I was unable to solve one Python question.
Preparation
Duration: 1 month
Topics: Python, Machine Learning Concepts, SQL, Advance Excel, Tableau, Power BI
Tip
Tip

Tip 1: Practice basic questions of coding like write a program for table of 5.
Tip 2: Practice SQL query questions.
Tip 3: Learn Excel from basic to advance.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 8 CGPA, (Salary package: 5 LPA)
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1: Add at least 2 projects.
Tip 2: Don't put irrelevant information in the resume.
Tip 3: The resume should be clean and crisp.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Telephonic
Duration20 minutes
Interview date4 May 2024
Coding problem4

1. DBMS

What are the different types of joins in SQL? (Learn)

2. DBMS

What is the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE commands? (Learn)

3. DBMS

What is the difference between DDL and DML commands? (Learn)

4. HR question

  1. Why do you want to join Paytm?
  2. What Significant Challenges and Difficulties Did You Face? How Did You Handle Them?
  3. How Much Salary Do You Expect?
02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration30 minutes
Interview date6 May 2024
Coding problem4

1. DBMS

Imagine you are working as a data analyst at Paytm. Your task is to filter down the customer transaction data based on multiple boolean conditions. You need to find all transactions that were done during the month of March and April, for total transaction amounts greater than 500. Also, separate the transactions that were successful from the ones that failed.

2. SQL

Given the table EMPLOYEES(EMPID, NAME, DEPARTMENT, SALARY), write a SQL query to get the information for the employees with the top three highest salaries. (Practice)

3. Range Sum

Moderate
10m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AdobeMicrosoftGeeksforGeeks

You are given an array ‘arr’ of size ‘N’. You are provided with ‘Q’ queries, each containing two integers, ‘L’ and ‘R’. Your task is to return the sum of elements from the position ‘L’ to ‘R’ for each query.

For example:
You are given arr = [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9], and queries = [[1, 3], [5, 6] , [1, 6]].

For the first query [1, 3] sum of elements = 1 + 3 + 4 = 8. Hence the answer is 8

For the second query [5, 6] sum of elements = 6 + 9 = 15. Hence the answer is 15

For the third query [1, 6] sum of elements = 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 9= 28. Hence the answer is 28. 

Hence the final answer is [8, 15, 28]
Problem approach

Use filter() Function to solve this question. 
Filter() function allows us to filter elements from an iterable based on a condition. In this case, we will use filter() to get positive numbers in the range and then print them.

Try solving now

4. Code Output

What will be the output of the following Python function?

min(max(False,-3,-4), 2,7)
a) -4
b) -3
c) 2
d) False

Problem approach

Ans:- D) false

Here's your problem of the day

Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company

Skill covered: Programming

What is recursion?

Choose another skill to practice
Similar interview experiences
company logo
SDE - 1
2 rounds | 4 problems
Interviewed by Paytm
297 views
0 comments
0 upvotes
company logo
Software Engineer Intern
3 rounds | 6 problems
Interviewed by Paytm
418 views
0 comments
0 upvotes
company logo
SDET-Intern
3 rounds | 7 problems
Interviewed by Paytm
319 views
0 comments
0 upvotes
company logo
SWE Intern
3 rounds | 5 problems
Interviewed by Paytm
242 views
0 comments
0 upvotes