I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2013
Interview
Interviewed with Paypal after graduating from college in December 2013. Process took about a month. Two phone interviews, final on-site interview which consisted of 5 hour long rounds of face to face interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were no difficult algorithmic questions. If you know your basics on algorithms and data structures you should be fine (I was asked a tree questions, and array pattern search question). I interviewed for a position in mobile sdk dev so the interviews focused mainly on architecture and design. Practice your object oriented design, and think of how to design things to securely and to scale (client/server side caching, security, etc.). These questions can be particularly tricky for someone coming right out of college. Also, Paypal values a good culture fit so be enthusiastic, sociable, and confident.
I had a recruiter call and they said they would send me a link to a Karat interview round in a week but I never received it. I mailed the recruiter multiple times but got no response or communication about it
PayPal response
1mo
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Recruiter call was basic scan of resume understanding tech stack what i work on and my interests. Prepare your resume and be ready to state why you want to work for the company.
PayPal response
2mo
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I interviewed 2 round, one front end, one hire manager, but didn’t move forward. The hr is helpful, the hire manager round asked about system design questions, which I feel may cause the rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Normal front end interview questions, implement a fetching api small task
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