PayPal

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

February 1, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Response

Process

A pretty good experience.

It started with a recruiter call, followed by a technical call.

Then, there were some automatic LeetCode tests.

Afterward, I progressed to onsite interviews and had a series of calls with different people.

The communication was smooth, and the process was decent overall.

Questions

Reverse a linked list in a technical recruiter call.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the PayPal Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

Negative0%

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