I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Bengaluru) in Nov 2024
Interview
First round was the OA round conducted on HackerRank Platform with 3 DSA questions. One was leetcode medium level and other two were leetcode hard level questions.
Next up was a technical interview where I was given 2 dsa questions (Medium) and then questions regarding my project were asked.
Last round was a Hiring Manager Round who asked questions related to my resume and also some questions regarding system design and basically was looking for my approach towards problems
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question asked to me was a variation of Merge Intervals concepts where you need to merge overlapping intervals and then tell the number of days which are not in the range
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
1 phone interview, 2 technical interview (varies per team), and one recruiter call (received offer). It was pretty streamlined. One of the technical interview leaned more toward system design, so I didn't receive a live-coding style question for that particular round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you use AI in your daily productivity workflow
OA -> Recruiter Screen -> 2 technical interviews 45 min each. The recruiter screen asked basic behavioral questions and technicals had couple resume questions and one leetcode problem. The leetcode questions were easy to medium.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why PayPal, A lesson I learned, A time I worked with a team.
There's initially an OA (followed by a behavioral round with a recruiter and then a technical screen with an engineer) - finally a call with hiring manager at the end
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