A recruiter approached me on LinkedIn, and we started the interview process.

The process involved the following rounds:

• First round: Karat interview - 1 hour
• Recruiter round - 15 minutes
• Second round: A junior SDE - 45 minutes

I believe PayPal is making a joke of its interviews and taking advantage of the job market. I'm not sure how senior SDEs are evaluated and rejected based on just one junior's feedback.

The interview was a coding challenge that iterated on the original problem from the Karat interview. It was originally scheduled for 45 minutes but ran close to an hour.

Karat - 2 problems in 1 hour.

This is no longer exact LeetCode but similar to medium level.

First Round - Recruiter:

• Why would you want to work at PayPal?
• How do you see yourself as a good fit?

Second Round:

Iterate on the Karat problem. You'd be forced to implement the interviewer's approach, though it may not be the best. There is plenty of time to finish it, given that this round runs for an hour. Arguing will end up in rejection.