I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
1 phone interview, 2 technical interview (varies per team), and one recruiter call (received offer). It was pretty streamlined. One of the technical interview leaned more toward system design, so I didn't receive a live-coding style question for that particular round
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How do you use AI in your daily productivity workflow
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Feb 2025
Interview
two technical interviews over video call. They asked leetcode style questions. I don't remember there being a "behavioral" interview, although a recruiter did call me for 10 minutes before scheduling the technical interviews.
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Question 1
technical, leetcode-style questions. I had 45 minutes to answer each one.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Bengaluru) in Nov 2024
Interview
First round was the OA round conducted on HackerRank Platform with 3 DSA questions. One was leetcode medium level and other two were leetcode hard level questions.
Next up was a technical interview where I was given 2 dsa questions (Medium) and then questions regarding my project were asked.
Last round was a Hiring Manager Round who asked questions related to my resume and also some questions regarding system design and basically was looking for my approach towards problems
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Question 1
Question asked to me was a variation of Merge Intervals concepts where you need to merge overlapping intervals and then tell the number of days which are not in the range