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Software Engineer Intern Interview Experience - San Jose, California

May 1, 2012
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

First Round - Phone Interview

Second Round - Skype Interview by 3 people

Third Round - Project Manager

Questions

Read nodes at each level in a BST

Difference between interface and abstract class

Any SQL query

What are web services?

How to decrease latency for web services?

Difference between distributed and parallel computing

Difference between StringBuffer and String

Design Patterns: Factory and Singleton

How will you convert a sorted array into a BST?

Finding deadlocks in code

What is CSS?

What is the DOM?

Final, finalize, and finally

Design classes for a bookstore

How will you start a project?

java.util package

Stream classes in Java

JDBC

Difference between Java and C++

Hashmaps

Linked List

How will you merge two sorted arrays?

Virtual tables in C++

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the PayPal Software Engineer Intern role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

PayPal's interview process for their Software Engineer Intern roles in San Jose, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral25%
Negative25%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for PayPal's Software Engineer Intern interview process in San Jose, California.

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