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Updated 6 Dec 2024

Top PayPal Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. Painting Fences You are given ‘N’ fences. Your task is to find the total number of ways to paint fences using 2 colors only such that at most 2 adjacent fences are painte ...read more
    asked in Software Engineer interview
  • Q2. Maximum Path Sum in the matrix You have been given an N*M matrix filled with integer numbers, find the maximum sum that can be obtained from a path starting from any cell ...read more
    asked in Software Developer interview
  • Q3. Search In The Array You are given two arrays ‘arr’ of size ‘n’ and ‘queries’ of size ‘q’. For each element ‘q’ in the array 'queries', your task is to find the sum of all ...read more
    asked in SDE-2 interview
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201 PayPal Interview Experiences

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Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Oct 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Knn algorithm using python
  • Q2. Some LC problem on suffix and prefix
2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Case study on imbalanced dataset
  • Q2. Evaluation metrics
Interview experience
2
 Poor
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 -
Result
 No response

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Nov 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Data structures and algo. 2 ques were asked in hackerrank

2

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions related to System design
3

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic question related to Spring and Java

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Software Engineer2 Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 16 Sep 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via LinkedIn

4 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Question base on Tree data structures

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain GC collector in Java
  • Q2. Dynamic programming algorithm question
3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Low level design for Car rental system
4

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary discussion

Skills evaluated in this interview

Golang Developer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 4 Nov 2024

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Easy
Duration
 4-6 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Oct 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Introduction about yourself
  • Q2. Basic golang questions
2

Coding Test Round

Coding questions on DSA

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well on Golang and they ask only on basic level proficiency. But interviewer is inpatient and unable to listen till we complete our topic.

PayPal interview questions for popular designations

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 (4)

Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 3 Jul 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Jun 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic Java related questions, OOPs concepts
  • Q2. Write code for encryption of the code
2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Java Related questions, also some system design-related questions
  • Q2. Show the abstraction and write code for function overriding
3

Behavioral Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Normal questions related to projects and work ethics

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Nov 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Coding test was on HackerRank

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Easy-Medium DSA Questions
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Asked from my resume

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Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Easy
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Aug 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Javascript questions on Hacker rank with pair programming

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Adv javscript questions
  • Q2. React code writing in hacker rank

Software Development Engineer interview

user image Sankalp Dayal

posted on 15 May 2022

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 -
Result
 -

I was interviewed in Oct 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Design Rate Limiter LLD
  • Q2. What are SOLID Principles? Springboot questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for PayPal Senior Software Engineer interview:
  • LLD
Interview experience
1
 Bad
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2024.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Python questions + Machine Learning (Breadth)

2

Coding Test Round

SQL questions + Machine Learning (Breadth)

3

Coding Test Round

Python questions (DSA + Pandas)

4

Case Study Round

Business case study related to merchant default

5

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. ML questions about loss functions, algorithms, models and neural networks

PayPal Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in PayPal interview?
PayPal interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the PayPal interview process are Technical, One-on-one Round and Coding Test.
How to prepare for PayPal interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at PayPal. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at PayPal expect are Financial Services, SQL, Python, Analytics and Computer science.
What are the top questions asked in PayPal interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the PayPal interview -

  1. Input a file. Select first 3 lines of the file. Select the longest line and cou...read more
  2. But amazon can do the search in O(n). Why it has to go for O(nk)? For data stru...read more
  3. When you search for a particular product in amazon, it displays some of the sea...read more
How long is the PayPal interview process?

The duration of PayPal interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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Interview Process at PayPal

based on 89 interviews in last 1 year

Interview experience

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People are getting interviews through

based on 123 PayPal interviews
Job Portal
Referral
Campus Placement
Company Website
WalkIn
Recruitment Consultant
34%
20%
15%
12%
1%
1%
17% candidates got the interview through other sources.
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