PayPal interview questions
Updated Jun 3, 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
Mostly positive
How others got an interview
- 15%RecruiterRecruiter
- 14%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 11%Campus RecruitingCampus Recruiting
- 4%Staffing AgencyStaffing Agency
- 3%In PersonIn Person
- 3%OtherOther
Interview search
2,467 interviews
PayPal interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at PayPal as 50.9% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.91 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Sales and Sales Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for SOX Manager and Contract Recruiter roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at PayPal takes an average of 25 days when considering 1,536 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Javascript Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Software Developer Co-Op roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 180 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at PayPal according to 1,536 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 13%
Group panel interview: 9%
Background check: 8%
Presentation: 7%
Personality test: 4%
Drug test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 2%
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