PayPal

SWE Intern Interview Experience - San Jose, California

October 16, 2023

Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

Two LC medium questions on PayPal's specific company page behavior were very standard and easily answerable using the STAR method. I heard back in a week, was accepted, and interned in May-August 2022 in San Jose. The process was smooth.

Questions

DFS, DP LC Mediums Questions

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the PayPal SWE Intern role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

100%

Pass Rate

PayPal's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in San Jose, California is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%

Neutral33%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for PayPal's SWE Intern interview process in San Jose, 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