Software Engineer I 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 online. I interviewed at PayPal in Apr 2017
Interview
Phone interview for RCG position. Interview went well but still got a reject after a couple of days. Interviewer did not bother to introduce properly. Dived into shared editor after just 2-3 minutes of conversation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic questions on strings such as longest contiguous character, first duplicate character.
I applied online. I interviewed at PayPal in Apr 2017
Interview
Interviewer was arrogant and stubborn. He didn't try to understand my solution. Instead, try to make me use his solution (signs of a bad developer/interviewer) Bad experience! Culture is also bad. You need to be on-call all the time. I would not want to work here.
I applied online. I interviewed at PayPal (Pudong, Shanghai) in Apr 2017
Interview
The company is located at shanghai, China at 2017.4.24 for summer intern. First we talked about CV and then started to write codes. Two problems, binary search and BFS. The whole process last about 1 hour.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Binary search(iteration and recursive version). Extends: How do you solve if it is duplicate(find the first one with O(logN))