PayPal

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - China

September 10, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

The interview process is smooth, with three technical rounds. The final round is with the hiring manager.

The coding question isn't too hard, and the overall communication is quite good.

In the final round, the manager asked some system design questions and also asked whether I want to focus on backend or frontend development.

Questions

What is your background?

Introduce yourself.

Interview Statistics

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

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

PayPal's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in China 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 China.

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