PayPal

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Austin, Texas

May 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

Interviews will consist of two 45-minute sessions. Each session will include a live coding question as well as a behavioral/situational question. Pending feedback from these two interviews, we may then have a 30-minute round with the hiring manager directly. That would be the full scope if necessary.

Questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 10 interview experiences for the PayPal Software Engineer role in Austin, Texas.

Success Rate

30%

Pass Rate

PayPal's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Austin, Texas is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive30%

Neutral40%

Negative30%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for PayPal's Software Engineer interview process in Austin, Texas.

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