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Software Engineer Interview Experience

June 1, 2009
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Process

I was hired through a third party. The first round of interviews was held at the third party's company, and I was asked to do an online test. The test was about an hour long; it consisted of multiple-choice questions about programming and UML concepts. About a week later, I got a phone interview from PayPal, which lasted about 30 minutes. Questions were mostly about object-oriented programming concepts like polymorphism and inheritance. The last round of the interview was a group interview with two software engineers and one manager. I had to give a presentation about my last project, and they asked me programming questions. It lasted about three hours.

Questions

How to reverse a string without using a buffer.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 304 interview experiences for the PayPal Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

26%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive53%
Neutral24%
Negative22%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for PayPal's Software Engineer interview process.

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