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iOS Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

July 1, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Initial recruiter screening and then forwarded to initial tech screening. This screening was 1 hour and included 20 minutes on iOS Fundamentals, 20 minutes for Discussion and Analysis of a small iOS application, and the last 20 minutes on DSA (easy to medium).

Recruiter shared that I cleared the tech screening and forwarded me to the lead recruiter. We had another screening, and the lead recruiter shared details about the next rounds and invited me to the final loop. These rounds were:

  1. iOS role specialization (went well; it was more like pair programming)
  2. Mobile System Design (went above average)
  3. DSA (disaster; a hard graph problem)
  4. Behavioral (went well; I had a great time)

Each round was 1 hour.

As expected, the results were not good. Since it was my first interview after coming to the USA, I had a lot of learnings from it.

Questions

They asked me to design a Low-Level Design (LLD) related to deep linking in an iOS role specialization.

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Interview Statistics

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PayPal's interview process for their iOS Engineer roles in San Jose, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for PayPal's iOS Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.

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