PayPal

The process started more than a month ago. I've had four phone calls, between the HR staff, hiring manager, and internal recruiters.

My resume was passed through a referral, and I was directly called for an onsite interview at their San Jose office. Right from the start, this was a disaster. The hiring manager directly called me and set up the interview: "Can you come tomorrow?"

I interviewed with the PayPal Partner Integrations Team. My interview process started with a recruiter call, followed by a phone screen conducted via a third party called Karat. The phone screen included two medium-difficulty LeetCode-level question