SWE applicants have rated the interview process at PayPal with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PayPal overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at PayPal as a SWE according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Presentation: 33%
Group panel interview: 33%
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This process was slow and they wasted my time -- I was declined after last interview due to being a new grad after going through all the interview rounds. f
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal in Feb 2019
Interview
I had two rounds of Skype interviews. The first one is 60-min mostly behavioral and one simple coding question. The second one is a 2-hr behavioral(more details on the projects) & coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a method to determine if 2 strings are anagrams.