Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at PayPal with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 35% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2014
Interview
My manager found me on LinkedIn. First, I did a phone screen, which I managed to convert into a Skype screen, because I've learned to not trust reception quality/consistency. After that, I was given a coding challenge in node.js. I was given it because I had no experience with node, so it would be a learning experience. However, I was expected to take only 3-4 hours with it, which is ludicrous (I took 12-16), and it wasn't even brought up during my onsite, which they said would happen.
As for the onsite, none of the questions were too hard/interesting, the questions varied (some high level, some algorithms, some more "cultural"), and everyone was fairly nice. They got back to me fairly quickly (like 2-3 days afterwards), which was cool. If it weren't for the random coding challenge, I would have rated this a positive experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function that returns true if a passed in number is a power of 2.
Tested online on Codility first. There were 3 questions to solve in 2 hours, one of which was pretty hard.
Then there was a pair interview. The atmosphere was ok, a little snobish.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you delete an item from a linked list when all you get is the item itself.
It was very professional and a terrific learning experience. The interview process has multiple rounds.
The first was a phone interview followed by 2 or 3 on site interviews. Overall a positive experience
Great!
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