PayPal

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

April 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

There were 4 rounds of interviews, including various coding rounds and a behavioral round at the end. HackerRank and LeetCode questions were involved. It was pretty tough, so I spent about 4 hours in interviews.

Questions

Why do you want to work at PayPal?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 42 interview experiences for the PayPal Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

36%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive57%

Neutral21%

Negative21%

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