Paypal Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions
30+ questions from real Paypal Software Engineer Phone Screen rounds, reported by candidates who interviewed there.
What does the Paypal Phone Screen round test?
The Paypal phone screen typically lasts 45-60 minutes and evaluates core Software Engineer fundamentals. Candidates should expect 1-2 algorithmic problems, basic system design discussion at senior levels, and questions about relevant experience. The goal is to confirm technical competence before bringing candidates onsite.
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Paypal Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions
Paypal Technical Phone Screen Interview Experience and API Design Challenge
I had an online assessment (OA) on Karat last week. Do an API design question in the first 15 minutes or so: We are designing the public HTTP API for a web service that helps corporate social media ma
Paypal SDE Interview
Background- 3+ YoE Round 1: technical Interview (in Golang)- Resume based questions were asked, based on the tech stack I had used and explanation of the tech stack I use in my...
PayPal - Senior Software Developer
Current Status : YOE : 5+ Role : Senior Backend Developer Round 1 : On Hacerrank (DSA + Problem Solving) 1. Given an api Url, get the response and return data for a...
Tesco | SDE2 | Banglore | Feb 2023
Current Position : - Status: 4.5 years - Position: SE2 at PayPal - Location: Chennai - Date: January 25, 2023 Round 1 : - Project Discussion ( Architecture ) , Role and Responsibility Tesco...
Lead Full Stack Developer
Round 1 JavaScript basics, implement deepClone, difference between call, apply, bind etc Round 2 DSA - Longest Increasing Subsequence (https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-increasing-subsequence/) Stack with getMin (https://leetcode.com/problems/min-stack/) **Round 3** System Design Questions regarding current project, design a system to take a...
PayPal | Staff Engineer | Seattle/Remote | Oct 2023 [Reject]
Status: 6 year Working Experience Position: Staff Software Engineer at PayPal Checkout team Location: Seattle/Remote Date: August - October 24, 2023 Round 1: Online Coding Assessment (1 hour) \t- Basic String manipulation questions. \t-...
Phone Screen | Paypal | SDE 2
Phone Screen Video Interview 60 min : 1. Questions about resume and current project 2. API Gateway Related Questions 3. Longest Substring without repeating charectors. Interviewer wanted an answer in...
Paypal | SWE 1 | New grad | Offer
The entire process consisted of 4 rounds comprising of a online assesment , 2 tech interviews and one technical + managerial round. Online Assesment Online Assesment consisted of two questions.The cutoff for...
Paypal | SDE 2 | Bangalore | 16-Feb-2022 (Offer)
SDE 2 , YOE :4.3 Round 1 (QA) \t2 problems 1 medium 1 hard Round 2 (Technical Interview) \t1. Sorting based on frequenct for a string or array \t2. Coin change problem \t\t\t https://leetcode.com/problems/coin-change/ **Round...
Paypal | SDE 2 | Bangalore | May 2022 [Accepted]
Interview Experience: I got call from recruiter for SDE 2 role @Paypal. The process took around 2 weeks to be completed and i received the offer letter after being accepted. There were...
Paypal | MTS 1 | Hyderabad | Jul 2022 | Offer
Status & Position: 7.8 YoE, SDE 2 @Product based company Round 1: Hiring Manager Round - Question from my projects - How would you evaluate between two solutions/tools. Round 2: Problem Solving/DSA...
Paypal | SE 3(T24) | Bangalore
I was approached by HR and as I was in notice period they fast tracked my interview process. Round 1 :- Find an element in infinite sorted array stream, Divide without...
PayPal | Software Engineer - 2 | Chennai, India
Each round happens on knock-out basis. Round 1 : (Hackerearth based test) [Time : 1h15m] This round had 2 questions. 1. given an array of size N and K queries, find the...
PayPal | SDE 2 | Hyderabad | Offer
Round 1: 1. Find nth node from the end of linked list. 2. Find first non repeating character from given string. 3. You are given list of songs = [1,3,5,10....100] and function random...
Phone Screen - 1 hour 15mins - Technical Questions \trelated to Design Pattern, MVC and testing \t 45mins - Coding - medium level \tGiven 2D matrix, find all the rectangles filled with 0 \treturn coordinates along...
PayPal | SE - 1 | Chennai | [Offer]
Round 1 : (Hackerearth based test) [Time : 1h15m] This round had 2 questions. Q1: Question based on segment trees and range queries(Easy if you know the concept). Gave a brute force...
Paypal| SDE2 | 2.8 YOE | Chennai Location [Offer]
Applied through referral. Total years of experience: ~3 Role: SDE2 Location: Chennai Total number of Rounds: 3 Difficulty Level: Medium Round 1 (Technical Round - 1 hour duration) Simple question on...
PayPal | SDE 3 | Bangalore | August 2021 | Offer
Hi All, Recently I appeared for the PayPal interview. I had applied via LinkedIn referrals. The following was my experience. Round 1 - DSA/Problem Solving - 1 hour 2 LC Easy questions and some...
Paypal | Technical Interview | Reject
Round 1 - Q1 - Find if a number is palindrome. Not allowed to use any string operations. Q2 - For a given tree, find the sum of numbers formed by...
Paypal | Software Engineer 2 | Bangalore [Offer]
Total Experience: 2+ years Round 1: DSA \t1. An Easy Array manipulation problem \t2. Josephus problem Round 2: LLD & DSA \t1. Subset sum DP question \t2. Implemented Merge Sort with multithreading: focussed on LLD \t3. Core...
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