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      Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 22, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at PayPal in Feb 2018

      Interview

      This was the first round of interview. I was told it will be a technical+behavioral round. But it was completely technical and there was not even an "introduce yourself" question. Right away started coding in collabedit. Interview went on for 45 minutes. But the interviewer didn't know what project/team I'm being hired to when I myself knew that. Paypal had sent me job description/project I will be working on if I get selected to so that I can prepare better. But the interviewer didn't have any clue about it. When I asked him/her some specific question about the project, he/she told me straightaway that he/she doesn't know anything about the project or team the position is for and he/she was just asked to conduct interview based on the candidate profile sent to him/her. If he/she had known about the project, then the process would have been even better as my profile/projects matched exactly to what they were looking for. I don't know whether I will be selected for next round or not. I'm waiting for the results.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Difference between Comparator and Comparable
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Difference between hashmap, treemap and linkedhashmap
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Difference between final, finally and finalize
      Answer question

      Question 4

      What is a singleton class?
      Answer question

      Question 5

      Program to validate paranthesis
      Answer question
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      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!

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      PayPal response
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      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!

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      Mar 6, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

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      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.

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      Question 1

      Normal front end interview questions, implement a fetching api small task
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      PayPal response
      3mo
      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!