PayPal

Manager, Machine Learning Interview Experience - Singapore

October 4, 2025

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Poorly organized. The interviewer was not well-prepared and asked many random questions with no clear direction.

For me, the interview process seemed more about gathering ideas from interviewees than evaluating them.

Questions

How would you proceed if I asked you to recruit a team of engineers?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the PayPal Manager, Machine Learning role in Singapore.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

PayPal's interview process for their Manager, Machine Learning roles in Singapore is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for PayPal's Manager, Machine Learning interview process in Singapore.

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