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 a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Austin, TX)
Interview
I was brought in to interview for a Frontend UI developer position. But every person (except 1) I met with was a Java developer. The questions asked to me were not related to the position I had been led to believe I was interviewing for. They were very disorganized and some of the interviews were with who would be my direct report except he was not understandable (bad accent) and located in CA. They only positive part of the process was I am now confident I do not want to ever work for Paypal. Oh, tons of arrogance by the interviewers. I guess you've "made it" if you work for Paypal.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Java: Binary Trees; HashMaps; HashTrees.
javascript Enclosures; Running PHP inside of Javascript.
Again, tons of Java related questions for a Frontend UI position.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
I applied online and got reply after one month. Had three rounds of interview. All telephonic. First interview was with the technical manager of the team. She asked me about my projects and other behavioral questions like why do want work at PayPal etc. It lasted hardly for 20 mins. Then the second round and third rounds were with the engineers within the team. They also asked me mostly about my projects. These were a bit detailed interviews and drilled down into the specifics about it.
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Question 1
Surprisingly no coding or object oriented questions were asked.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
Applied online through their Careers website.
HR contacted me few weeks later and asked me if I was available to talk to a manager.
The manager generally questioned me on my interests, projects and described at length about the projects at Paypal.
He asked me a few questions on my projects and in general, my opinions on different languages, technologies.
After this, I had a technical phone screen with one of the engineers on the team.
It was a coding round coupled with some questions on OOPs, multi-threading etc.
I was immediately contacted for another set of interviews. Since I could not go onsite to their SFO office, all these rounds were online.
I had three interviews which were completely coding.
But the interviews were really friendly and extremely cool.
They would let you arrive to the solution and were interested in how you think ,your reasoning apart from your code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All questions were coding, OOPs concepts, standard algorithms and data structures. Complexity and some questions were related to JAVA.
Nothing unexpected.