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Updated May 29, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at PayPal
Posted May 29, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 (took a day)
sent me C\C++ test by email, it supposed to take no more then one hour,
ask not to use editor, internet, other compiler, just use the online environment without the c stanard libraries,
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I got the interview through a Recruiter.
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Software Engineer at PayPal
Posted May 21, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 4 weeks)
Applied online and got in touch with a recruiter. She sent a skills test and I passed the Skills test which consisted of 4 questions - 2 coding questions and 2 debug questions. After the Skills test, I was contacted by a member of the team I was going to work with and we had a conversation (phone interview) related to position for 5-10 mins and than problem solving. 1 of the problem was to find the longest substring match in a system which can accept only one character at a time. 2nd poroblem was based on linked list and it was to delete an element that was currently pointed without the help of any head or tail pointer. I passed this round, but the result came in after 2 weeks. After that I was contacted by another senior member of the team, but it seemed that he was not interested in me and asked general questions but it seemed he didn't even listen to my answers and not engaging at all. He asked open ended questions. I received a reject after 2 weeks of this 2nd phone interview.
Interview Questions
What is the output from this code (assume int is 32 bit)
int f(int n)
{
return n * f(n-1);
}
print(f(100));
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at PayPal
Posted May 18, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 in Austin, TX (took 1+ week)
Submitted the resume online. Got an phone interview. Questions ranging from OOPs concept, to couple of programming questions(find if string is palindrome, find if number is prime or not)
Got an onsite after 2 days. Had 2 hours of 1:1 interviews. Questions from dynamic programming and bits manipulation
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at PayPal
Posted May 13, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took 1+ week)
They interview for many area but very few are used once inside
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Negotiation Details
I got more what i asked for .
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at PayPal
Posted May 8, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took a day)
1 round of phone interview.Touched Oops concept, Threading, Data Structure. 2nd round was onsite, which was for 2 hours, 30 minutes of 1:1 interview with multiple people. Questions was in Design Pattern, Threading, Data Structure, Spring, Analytical/Problem Solving questions.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at PayPal
Posted Apr 23, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took 5 days)
HR sent me an email containing 5 questions. After that called me onsite for interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at PayPal
Posted Apr 2, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
1 online test and 2 phone screens. Pretty much normal questions. Could not make it through 2nd phone interview, as I had difficulty in explaining my code to the interviewer. HR took lot of time to correspond and schedule the interviews.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at PayPal
Posted Mar 10, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Austin, TX (took 1 week)
Had phone screen from a manager initially. Then Went for onsite interviews the following week. HAd 5 rounds of interviews. 3 Technical and 2 Behavioral. technical rounds consisted of questions on OOPS and SQL and from resume.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at PayPal
Posted Feb 6, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
The office looks good, but the procedure is not so formal, the interviewer is very nice.
I was tested on basic oo concept, but as time goes by , it becomes harder, mainly on how Virtuar function is implemented in different cases.
Also the difference between poniter and refrence, abstraction, etc
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at PayPal
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Scottsdale, AZ (took a day)
It was systematic with a phone interview first and one to one interview next.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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