Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at PayPal as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Analista Contable and HR Manager rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Analista Contable and HR Manager roles were rated as the easiest.
Two level of interview
Round-1: React and DSA question in react some you need to fill the missing logic for the given component. In DSA for me they asked for LRU cache problem.
Round-2: Design system. Question start from DNS, security, CDN, cookies handling, complete web application architecture from the browser to backend storage which involves load balancer, cache, data transfer mechanisms like web sockets, long polling, some of the questions like the give specific feature and you explain the functionality requirement in both frontend and backend like what the data you get from the user how's your frontend look like which method you efficient one transfer data from frontend to backend and why?, how can store data in table in which relation order. They asked backend too when comes to architecture and feature concept explanation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round-1: React and DSA question in react some you need to fill the missing logic for the given component. In DSA for me they asked for LRU cache problem.
Round-2: Design system. Question start from DNS, security, CDN, cookies handling, complete web application architecture from the browser to backend storage which involves load balancer, cache, data transfer mechanisms like web sockets, long polling, some of the questions like the give specific feature and you explain the functionality requirement in both frontend and backend like what the data you get from the user how's your frontend look like which method you efficient one transfer data from frontend to backend and why?, how can store data in table in which relation order. They asked backend too when comes to architecture and feature concept explanation.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at PayPal (Chennai) in Feb 2025
Interview
It was good but not very relevant to the job. More of DS and Algo problem solving. You require strong hands on to crack paypal interview. Better to solve some leetcode paypay interview questions before giving a try.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First round was to solve a board game . More of a 2 d matrix water flow problem. adding a coin in any cell converts the adjascent cells. Maximum number of cells that could be converted and best positions to place the coins was the ask.
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This process was slow and they wasted my time -- I was declined after last interview due to being a new grad after going through all the interview rounds. f
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