I applied online. I interviewed at PayPal in Feb 2025
Interview
Karat Interview process with Discussion and Analysis Questions in Java for 15 mins. Then Live Coding: Data Structures and Algorithms for 45 mins. They also asked to debug some code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
We're tracking supplies for the hotel like food and soap. We want to create stock alerts.
In our system, we specify low and high inventory levels, and we will create an alert when a transaction:
* Changes the inventory from above or equal to the low level to below the low level
* Changes the inventory from below or equal to the high level to above the high level
* Results in a negative inventory. This includes going from negative to negative
A transaction can only generate one alert. See the last transaction in the example.
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Other Software Engineer interview reviews for PayPal
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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