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Jun 13, 2022

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Chennai) in May 2022

Interview

There were one coding test in which two coding question were asked. After that one technical interview round and one hiring manager round were there and I didn't get the result till now.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Remove Duplicate elements from an array

1 Answer

PayPal response

Thank you for sharing your interview experience and welcome to the PayPal family!

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Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview

Apr 29, 2026

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

Interview

Two interviews on the same day Both had medium Leetcode questions and a behavioral part. There was a short 1 minute introduction as well Interviewer was very helpful and guided through the process

PayPal response

1mo

Thank you for sharing your interview experience and welcome to the PayPal family!

Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview

Nov 17, 2025

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal

Interview

Totally 5 rounds Easy to Medium DSA, DB questions and system design rounds. Concepts like Trees, graphs and recursion, DP are asked. Low level design and how you fit in their team.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How will you resolve a production issue.

Answer question

Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview

Jan 27, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (Bengaluru) in Nov 2025

Interview

Round 1) OA HackerRank ( 2 Questions ) Round 2) DSA round - Arrays and String one question and One SQL Question Round 3) System Design - HLD and LLD

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

1) For DSA Round, i) Brute Force ii) optimized approach with clean code

Answer question

PayPal response

4mo

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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Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview

Jun 13, 2022

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Chennai) in May 2022

Interview

There were one coding test in which two coding question were asked. After that one technical interview round and one hiring manager round were there and I didn't get the result till now.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Remove Duplicate elements from an array

1 Answer

PayPal response

Thank you for sharing your interview experience and welcome to the PayPal family!

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Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview

Apr 29, 2026

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

Interview

Two interviews on the same day Both had medium Leetcode questions and a behavioral part. There was a short 1 minute introduction as well Interviewer was very helpful and guided through the process

PayPal response

1mo

Thank you for sharing your interview experience and welcome to the PayPal family!

Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview

Nov 17, 2025

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal

Interview

Totally 5 rounds Easy to Medium DSA, DB questions and system design rounds. Concepts like Trees, graphs and recursion, DP are asked. Low level design and how you fit in their team.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How will you resolve a production issue.

Answer question

Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview

Jan 27, 2026

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at PayPal (Bengaluru) in Nov 2025

Interview

Round 1) OA HackerRank ( 2 Questions ) Round 2) DSA round - Arrays and String one question and One SQL Question Round 3) System Design - HLD and LLD

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

1) For DSA Round, i) Brute Force ii) optimized approach with clean code

Answer question

PayPal response

4mo

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