PayPal

SWE Intern Interview Experience - San Jose, California

September 21, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Response

Process

OA -> Recruiter Screen -> 2 technical interviews (45 min each).

The recruiter screen asked basic behavioral questions. The technical interviews included a couple of resume questions and one LeetCode problem. The LeetCode questions were easy to medium.

Questions

Why PayPal

A lesson I learned

A time I worked with a team.

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