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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Canada

July 21, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

This has to be one of the worst interviews ever. The interviewer was interviewing me, sitting on a sofa in a common area, and it was loud and distracting. Because he was sitting on the sofa, his laptop was on his lap, and only the bottom left half of his face was in the camera the entire time.

He started the interview by shooting about 20 simple, knowledge-based questions at me, then proceeded to ask about my experiences.

When I thought it couldn't get any worse, I asked him a simple question about the company culture. He couldn't answer it and instead asked me what I looked for in a culture. He proceeded to respond, "Yes, we have all those." I stopped asking questions and finished the interview.

Questions

Knowledge questions.

Simple programming questions + follow-ups:

  • Reverse a word
  • Reverse a string
  • Reverse words in a string

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PayPal's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for PayPal's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in Canada.

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