PayPal

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

September 20, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

There were two technical rounds.

Each round involved about 1-2 medium LeetCode questions in Java, relevant to my job position.

The questions focused on stacks/arrays and Object-Oriented Programming.

It wasn't too hard if you're focused.

Questions

Stack/array question on LeetCode that is labeled under 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