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Nov 2, 2025

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Singapur) in Oct 2025

Interview

Technical interview Asked about binary search medium leetcode question. Asked to design a system- high level design of an LLM prompting system, followed up questions about how to improve it.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How can you improve the system, error handling (try catch), improve to support multiple models?

Answer question

PayPal response

7mo

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Software Engineer Interview

Apr 7, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal

Interview

I had a recruiter call and they said they would send me a link to a Karat interview round in a week but I never received it. I mailed the recruiter multiple times but got no response or communication about it

PayPal response

1mo

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 16, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

Interview

Recruiter call was basic scan of resume understanding tech stack what i work on and my interests. Prepare your resume and be ready to state why you want to work for the company.

PayPal response

2mo

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 6, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

Interview

I interviewed 2 round, one front end, one hire manager, but didn’t move forward. The hr is helpful, the hire manager round asked about system design questions, which I feel may cause the rejection.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Normal front end interview questions, implement a fetching api small task

Answer question

PayPal response

2mo

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Software Engineer Interview

Nov 2, 2025

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Singapur) in Oct 2025

Interview

Technical interview Asked about binary search medium leetcode question. Asked to design a system- high level design of an LLM prompting system, followed up questions about how to improve it.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How can you improve the system, error handling (try catch), improve to support multiple models?

Answer question

PayPal response

7mo

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Software Engineer Interview

Apr 7, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal

Interview

PayPal response

1mo

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 16, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

Interview

Recruiter call was basic scan of resume understanding tech stack what i work on and my interests. Prepare your resume and be ready to state why you want to work for the company.

PayPal response

2mo

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 6, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

Interview

I interviewed 2 round, one front end, one hire manager, but didn’t move forward. The hr is helpful, the hire manager round asked about system design questions, which I feel may cause the rejection.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Normal front end interview questions, implement a fetching api small task

Answer question

PayPal response

2mo

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