I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at PayPal (New York, NY) in Mar 2020
Interview
Data science intern interview.
One recruiter reached out to me and scheduled the first round of phone interviews. The first interview was with a data scientist of the team I was interviewing for. She asked me technical questions about machine learning, fraud detection, and SQL theory questions. Then she asked me a few advanced level SQL queries. I thought I answered them well. After that, I had another phone interview with a product manager. He asked me behavioral questions and how high I would rate myself in SQL, Python, and AWS. He also asked me to explain two of my projects.
After two days, I received an invitation for the final round of interviews with the senior product manager of the team. It was a video interview and focused on my knowledge about payment risks and the e-commerce domain. He asked me open-ended questions on how I can detect and prevent payment frauds in various scenarios and which algorithms, technologies I would use and why. I thought I did well and the manager seemed impressed with my answers. However, I received rejection email after 4 days.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at PayPal
Interview
They visited our campus. We had an online exam which about 300+ people took. It had only aptitude like 40 questions. It was not so tough. Then they filtered about 30 for next round. Then we were given a scenario and they looked into our Problem Solving abilities. Then 12 were selected for next round. General questions in core, puzzles were asked.
Online interview consisting of variety of questions. The questions were about my academic background as well as hobbies and interests. Overall the interview process was good, as I was allowed to complete interview at a time of my choosing, and practice was provided before.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"Describe a time you had to challenge someone's opinion"