PayPal

iOS Engineer Interview Experience - United States

February 26, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first round is pretty light. The second round is technical: 20 minutes of iOS discussion, followed by 40 minutes of one LeetCode easy or medium problem. Then, it's in person, with 4 rounds of interviews. Team allocation follows after the interviews.

Questions

Why do you want to work at PayPal?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the PayPal iOS Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive25%

Neutral50%

Negative25%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for PayPal's iOS Engineer interview process in United States.

PayPal Interview Questions

Zigzag Conversion

Medium

Convert a given string into a zigzag pattern with a specified number of rows. Then read the characters row by row to return the converted string.

Strings

LRU Cache

Medium

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Linked ListsArraysDynamic Programming

Word Search

Medium

Determine if a given word can be constructed from letters in a 2D board, where letters can be used horizontally or vertically. Each letter can only be used once in the word.

ArraysStringsRecursionGraphs