PayPal

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - United States

October 6, 2024

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The HackerRank had two questions. The first was an LC easy, and the second was a medium. The questions weren't too hard. I passed the first question easily.

Questions

Finding duplicate characters in a string.

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