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The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (London, England)
I applied and interviewed during the Covid lock down. It was all done remotely from home and it went very smoothly. The HR rep who was looking after me made sure I was updated on my progress on a regular basis. I had 2 interviews and a case study. The process took about 8 weeks but I was onboarded pretty swiftly after that.
- Relevant case study and previous experience.

I interviewed at PayPal (United States)
The interview was very straight-forward and mainly behavioral questions. I had a phone interview with manager, an onsite, then one final. All 3 rounds were conducted over video call and I'm currently waiting to hear back.
- Mainly behavioral: questions about background and interests

I applied online. I interviewed at PayPal (Singapore)
There were two interviews. The first was a video interview with the recruiter and the second was also a video interview with the hiring manager as physical interviews were not allowed.
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I interviewed at PayPal (United States)
Talked to hiring manager after initial screen with HR. Process went smoothly. Content of tech screen was surprising -- did not seem like a good fit. Overall the interview process took several weeks to get to that point.
- What proportion of a massive data set should be sampled with replacement when bootstrapping for RF? How would you identify the strongest/most important predictors of a trained NN?

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at PayPal (United States)
30 min around prior sales experience. There was a personality test taken prior. Recruiter didn’t seem to be on the same page as the managers unfortunately. No opportunity to negotiate salary/PTO. Take it or leave it job.
- Tell us how you prospect future opportunities?

I interviewed at PayPal (United States)
a recruiter contacted me 2 weeks after I submitted my resume. Have two rounds of technical interviews, one hour for each, and haven't heard back yet. Hopefully, I will hear back from them
- Can't say NRA but it was average

I applied online. I interviewed at PayPal (United States)
Got reached out by the recruiter via email to setup a phone screen. Phone screen was just to get a high level overview of the technologies I am familiar with. After that, I had a virtual interview, which was Spring Boot heavy. Then I was ghosted.
- Signed an NDA, so I can't disclose the questions.

The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (United States)
The process started fine with a quick call with Recruiter and other PM from the team. So far, so good. I was given a take home assignment I spent my whole weekend to present on my Onsite. Never doing a free service to solve solutions for the company. Case presentation+ 2 PM interviews + Engg interview Recruiter didn’t give results until I followed up twice. They said the role is for a high level, and they are waiting for a new opening. No response from the recruiter ever since.
- Success Metric based questions Product design problem EM wanted to understand communication with engineers through a design question

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at PayPal (United States)
Quite an easy interview with basic questions on Data Structures and Algorithms . Some questions on sorting algorithms as well . 30 words minimum? Are we there yet? Yes? Thanks!
- What is quicksort? How is it implemented?

I interviewed at PayPal (United States)
Coding challenge at first (pretty simple) Behavioral with a team member Technical with two team members Last behavioral with another two team members I think the interview process varies by the team, but it was pretty straight forward
- Basic resume question some OOP programming (not much algorithm)

I interviewed at PayPal (United States)
For me it was directly from a team required a Sr Software Engineer, First round technical discussion. I got video interview from one of the managers. He asked about my current job and technology I'm working on. After few days I got response from HR saying recruiting was put on hold.
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