PayPal

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - United States

October 1, 2022

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It was a video interview process. An engineer asked about a coding question, similar to those found on LeetCode. I was asked to devise a solution and discussed optimization for this particular problem.

Questions

Asked about system design and optimization.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 44 interview experiences for the PayPal Software Engineer (Internship) role in United States.

Success Rate

32%

Pass Rate

PayPal's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive70%

Neutral16%

Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for PayPal's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United States.

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