PayPal

SWE I Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

April 17, 2025

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

This process was slow, and they wasted my time. I was declined after the last interview due to being a new grad, after going through all the interview rounds.

Questions

Stacks -- was a LC hard.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the PayPal SWE I role in San Francisco, California.

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PayPal's interview process for their SWE I roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for PayPal's SWE I interview process in San Francisco, California.

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