I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
Applied online through their Careers website.
HR contacted me few weeks later and asked me if I was available to talk to a manager.
The manager generally questioned me on my interests, projects and described at length about the projects at Paypal.
He asked me a few questions on my projects and in general, my opinions on different languages, technologies.
After this, I had a technical phone screen with one of the engineers on the team.
It was a coding round coupled with some questions on OOPs, multi-threading etc.
I was immediately contacted for another set of interviews. Since I could not go onsite to their SFO office, all these rounds were online.
I had three interviews which were completely coding.
But the interviews were really friendly and extremely cool.
They would let you arrive to the solution and were interested in how you think ,your reasoning apart from your code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All questions were coding, OOPs concepts, standard algorithms and data structures. Complexity and some questions were related to JAVA.
Nothing unexpected.
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
Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!
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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