PayPal

Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

December 1, 2023

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

2 rounds:

Interview with the project manager:
- One was coding, asking for easy LeetCode questions and some cloud technologies questions.
- Another was system design.

Questions

Sorting numbers LeetCode question and optimization

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the PayPal Software Development Engineer (SDE) role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

PayPal's interview process for their Software Development Engineer (SDE) roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for PayPal's Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview process in San Francisco, California.

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