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PayPal Software Developer Intern Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Freshers

Updated 1 May 2024

Top PayPal Software Developer Intern Interview Questions and Answers for Freshers

  • Q1. Reverse the String You are given a string 'STR'. The string contains [a-z] [A-Z] [0-9] [special characters]. You have to find the reverse of the string. For example: If t ...read more
  • Q2. One Away You are given two strings, string A and string B. Your task is to determine whether string A can be transformed into string B by performing only one of the follo ...read more
  • Q3. Remove Duplicates From String You are given a string (STR) of length N, consisting of only the lower case English alphabet. Your task is to remove all the duplicate occur ...read more
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3 PayPal Software Developer Intern Interview Experiences for Freshers

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Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Nov 2023.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

5 MCQ questions, and 1 coding question similar to Leetcode medium-hard level (topic-greedy).

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic DSA questions related to strings, linkedlists, binary search etc.
  • Q2. Questions related to resume

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for PayPal Software Developer Intern interview:
  • DSA
  • DBMS

Software Developer Intern Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 13 Jan 2022

I was interviewed before Jan 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Face to Face Round (4 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Technical round that lasted for around 60 minutes. The interviewer asked me questions based on DSA and OOPS concepts.

  • Q1. Dijkstra's shortest path You have been given an undirected graph of ‘V’ vertices (labeled 0,1,..., V-1) and ‘E’ edges. Each edge connecting two nodes (‘X’,’Y’) ...read more
  • Q2. OOPS Question

    Difference between C and C++

  • Q3. OOPS Question

    Difference between malloc and new

  • Q4. OOPS Question

    What is virtual function?

2

Face to Face Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Technical round that lasted for around 60 minutes. The interviewer asked me questions based on SQL and OOPS concepts.

  • Q1. DBMS Question

    Query to find nth highest salary

  • Q2. OOPS Question OOPS contains 3 classes A,B,C and they are in multi level inheritance, was asked about the use of public, protected and private members of A in B ...read more
  • Q3. OOPS Question

    Difference between Stack and Heap

3

HR Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

HR round that lasted for around 30 minutes. The interviewer asked questions to know more about me. We also discussed a puzzle.

  • Q1. Puzzle

    Hourglasses Puzzle

  • Q2. Basic HR Question

    Q1. Firstly was asked about the subjects I'm studying this semester
    Q2. Different questions about my projects
     

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAPaypal interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Software Developer Intern Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 7 Jan 2022

I was interviewed before Jan 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 75 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Simple question based on strings was given. MCQs based on basic aptitude and programming questions were asked. 
Tips: Time management is important. Remember all the syntaxes

  • Q1. Reverse the String You are given a string 'STR'. The string contains [a-z] [A-Z] [0-9] [special characters]. You have to find the reverse of the string....read more
2

Face to Face Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was a good experience.
Tips: If you don't know something just tell them. Don't try to answer something if you don't know anything about it

  • Q1. One Away You are given two strings, string A and string B. Your task is to determine whether string A can be transformed into string B by performing only one of...read more
  • Q2. Remove Duplicates From String You are given a string (STR) of length N, consisting of only the lower case English alphabet. Your task is to remove all the dupli...read more
3

HR Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was easy. I could answer the first question. Second one I answered really badly

  • Q1. Basic HR Questions

    Q1. Explain the projects that I've done
    Q2. What did you learn about PayPal today?
    Q3. Why join PayPal?

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAPaypal interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Revise C++/Java. 
Tip 3 : If you don't know much of C++/Java at least write the codes in C. 
Tip 4 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

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

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Oct 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Merge two sorted linked lists
  • Q2. Check if paranthesis are balanced or not
2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Right view of a Binary Search tree
  • Q2. Few javascript questions on how to parse a json object without using inbuilt libraries.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare dsa easy-medium and your projecs in depth.
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

I applied via Campus Placement

3 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

There was a very basic aptitude test ,but time was very low.

2

Coding Test Round

For round 2 there were given 2 questions which were very easy, any beginner programmer can do it.

3

One-on-one Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. During the interview I was asked about my hobbies my projects and a bit about dsa
  • Q2. About Hobbies like photography and studds
  • Q3. ABout basic dsa like stack queue
  • Q4. About my projects
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

I applied via Campus Placement

1 Interview Round

1

Coding Test Round

1 hr , 3 sum leetcode question

I was interviewed in Feb 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Video Call Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The nature of the interviewer was very kind. The test was proctored, our webcam and mic were on, and shared my screen.

  • Q1. Diameter of the binary tree. You are given a Binary Tree. You are supposed to return the length of the diameter of the tree. The diameter of a binary tree is th...read more
  • Q2. Two Sum You are given an array of integers 'ARR' of length 'N' and an integer Target. Your task is to return all pairs of elements such that the...read more
2

HR Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 35 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The nature of the interviewer was very kind, helped me when I stuck. The round was proctored, our webcam and mic were on, and shared my screen.

  • Q1. Basic Interview Questions

    Although it was an HR round but this question was quite a mix of tech+HR round. Some puzzles and guesstimates were asked.

     

  • Q2. How to measure 45 mins exactly using a stick that burns completely in 60 mins if burnt from one side. If we light a stick, it takes 60 minutes to burn completel...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Computer Science Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. I applied for the job as SDE - Intern in HyderabadEligibility criteriaabove 7 cgpa, no backlogsPaytm (One97 Communications Limited) interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, OOPS, Algorithms, C++, DevelopmentTime required to prepare for the interview - 4 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Do at least 1 projects at any technology
Tip 2 : Learn DSA at least these topics Array, LL, Tree, DP

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : At least mention the projects or internships on your resume.
Tip 2 : Avoid unnecessary details like Hobbies, declaration, date.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed before Jul 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

DSA Problems on LinkedList and Stack.

2

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. HM Round on projects and all

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Go through the problems keenly and ask necessary questions.
Interview experience
2
 Poor
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
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2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Java questions were asked by them
  • Q2. Python were asked by them
3

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Location preferences were asked by them
  • Q2. Future what u wanna do was asked by them

I was interviewed in Dec 2020.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 70 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

  • Q1. Parth And His OCD Parth is a nerd programmer. He has started learning array/list programming. Parth has received an array/list ‘ARR’ of ‘N’ positive integers as...read more
  • Q2. Find all occurrences You are given a 'M' x 'N' matrix of characters, 'CHARACTER_MATRIX' and a string 'WORD'. Your task is to fin...read more
  • Q3. Print Nodes at distance K from a given node You are given an arbitrary binary tree, a node of the tree, and an integer 'K'. You need to find all such no...read more
2

Video Call Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The nature of the interviewer was very kind. The test was proctored, our webcam and mic were on, and shared my screen.

  • Q1. Diagonal Traversal of a binary tree. You have been given a binary tree of integers. You are supposed to find the diagonal traversal(refer to Example) of the giv...read more
  • Q2. Diameter of the binary tree. You are given a Binary Tree. You are supposed to return the length of the diameter of the tree. The diameter of a binary tree is th...read more
3

Video Call Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The nature of the interviewer was very kind, helped me when I stuck. The test was proctored, our webcam and mic were on, and shared my screen.

  • Q1. Next Greater Element For a given array/list of integers of size N, print the Next Greater Element(NGE) for every element. The Next Greater Element for an elemen...read more
  • Q2. Subset Sum Equal To K You are given an array/list ‘ARR’ of ‘N’ positive integers and an integer ‘K’. Your task is to check if there exists a subset in ‘ARR’ wit...read more
4

Video Call Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The nature of the interviewer was very kind, helped me when I stuck. The test was proctored, our webcam and mic were on, and shared my screen.

  • Q1. Buy and Sell Stock You are Harshad Mehta’s friend. He told you the price of a particular stock for the next ‘N’ days. You can either buy or sell a stock. Also, ...read more
  • Q2. DBMS Questions

    SQL command
    ACID properties
    Difference between unique primary and foreign key.

  • Q3. OS Questions

    What is segementation.
    Difference between internal and external fragmentation.

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Information Technology from JSS Academy of Technical Education. I applied for the job as SDE - Intern in NoidaEligibility criteriaNo criteriaPaytm (One97 Communications Limited) interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, OOPS, Algorithms, C++, DevelopmentTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Do at least 1 projects at any technology
Tip 2 : Learn DSA at least these topics Array, LL, Tree, DP

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : At least mention the projects or internships on your resume.
Tip 2 : Avoid unnecessary details like Hobbies, declaration, date.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

PayPal Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in PayPal Software Developer Intern interview for freshers?
PayPal interview process for freshers usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the PayPal interview process for freshers are Coding Test and Technical.

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