PayPal Software Engineer Interview Questions

Skip to content Skip to footer

Notifications

PayPal

Interviews

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 21, 2017

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal

Interview

I applied online and received an email to schedule a phone interview 3 weeks later. The phone interview consisted of only technical questions and lasted about 40 minutes. It involved multiple questions regarding distributed systems and using threads to increase the speed of program execution.

Interview questions [2]

Question 1

How would you go through a document and tell me how many times a particular word occurs throughout the document?

1 Answer

Question 2

If I gave you a large number of documents, how would you tell me the number of times a word shows up in all of the documents combined using multiple computers?

Answer question

Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for PayPal

Software Engineer Interview

Apr 7, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal

Interview

I had a recruiter call and they said they would send me a link to a Karat interview round in a week but I never received it. I mailed the recruiter multiple times but got no response or communication about it

PayPal response

1mo

Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 16, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

Interview

Recruiter call was basic scan of resume understanding tech stack what i work on and my interests. Prepare your resume and be ready to state why you want to work for the company.

PayPal response

3mo

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 6, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

Interview

I interviewed 2 round, one front end, one hire manager, but didn’t move forward. The hr is helpful, the hire manager round asked about system design questions, which I feel may cause the rejection.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Normal front end interview questions, implement a fetching api small task

Answer question

PayPal response

3mo

PayPal interviews PayPal Software Engineer interviews PayPal interview

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 21, 2017

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal

Interview

Interview questions [2]

Question 1

How would you go through a document and tell me how many times a particular word occurs throughout the document?

1 Answer

Question 2

If I gave you a large number of documents, how would you tell me the number of times a word shows up in all of the documents combined using multiple computers?

Answer question

Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for PayPal

Software Engineer Interview

Apr 7, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal

Interview

PayPal response

1mo

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 16, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

Interview

Recruiter call was basic scan of resume understanding tech stack what i work on and my interests. Prepare your resume and be ready to state why you want to work for the company.

PayPal response

3mo

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 6, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

Interview

I interviewed 2 round, one front end, one hire manager, but didn’t move forward. The hr is helpful, the hire manager round asked about system design questions, which I feel may cause the rejection.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Normal front end interview questions, implement a fetching api small task

Answer question

PayPal response

3mo

PayPal

Software Engineer Interview

Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for PayPal

Software Engineer Interview

Software Engineer Interview

Software Engineer Interview

Want the inside scoop on your own company?

Bowls

Followed companies

Job searches

Software Engineer Interview

Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for PayPal

Software Engineer Interview

Software Engineer Interview

Software Engineer Interview