PayPal

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Chennai, Tamil Nadu

November 1, 2023

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Round 1: Online Assessment

Consisting of one coding question and 15 MCQs.

Round 2: Technical Round

Results were announced one month after Round 1. Questions covered strings, arrays, and computer networks.

Round 3: HR Round

Some basic questions on resume and projects were asked.

Questions

Technical coding question:

Given two arrays, find the closest integer of each element of array 1 in array 2.

HR Round:

What would you do if you have a basic idea or proposal? Would you discuss it with the team?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the PayPal Software Engineer (Internship) role in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

PayPal's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Chennai, Tamil Nadu 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 (Internship) interview process in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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