I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal in Jan 2022
Interview
First round was HR screening and second round was a technical interview followed by an interview with the team manager. Overall the process was pretty easy and straightforward with no complications.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked a palindrome question. LC easy. Interview lasted about 45 mins
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I had one interview that included basic computer science questions, along with a coding task to implement an array supporting O(1) operations such as set-all, and some additional multithreading questions related to that set-all array implementation.
PayPal response
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Received an OA for this. The OA had two questions: one easy difficulty and one medium. They were similar if not identical to Leetcode's premium tagged questions for this company. Sadly, I did the OA late and got ghosted.
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I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
I got ghosted after doing great in both interviews. I can't believe companies ghost even students nowadays especially for a big name like Paypal. Kinda sucks, but it definitely says more about them.
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