I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Mountain View, CA) in Jul 2014
Interview
Contacted through LinkedIn, scheduled a phone screening interview. Went well, reviewed resume, background, design decisions, career goals - fun chat with very experienced engineer. Got thumbs up next day.
Later provided with a coding challenge and about 1 week to complete - very open ended, combined lots of tools I used in the past but had to learn a few new ones. Had fun with it and implemented extra features.
Onsite scheduled shortly after, 5 interviewers at 45 minutes each, 4 from the team I would work with and 1 from another team. First few interviewers asked questions about specific language features such as scoping, terminology, limits, but I was expecting questions specific to the coding challenge - as I was told the challenge was meant to 'guide the interviews'. The last two interviewers reviewed my code and were on point with their questions - allowing me to demonstrate my experience well and in an organic way.
Did not get the position, but overall had a good experience. Disappointed I could not demonstrate my full value due to the way the interviews were structured.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Here is code intentionally convoluted with many layers deep of function calls - determine variable values at different points in the programs life.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Feb 2014
Interview
After the career fair at school, the recruiter emailed me saying there is a team interested in interviewing me. After a few days, the first phone interview was scheduled with the team's manager.
After the recruiter told me the manager had positive feedback about me, I was scheduled a second interview with one of the developers on the team. After a week later, I got an unofficial acceptance. It took one to two weeks after that to receive the official offer letter.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at PayPal (Singapur) in Sep 2014
Interview
I did a written quiz for around an hour at first. And two junior developers interviewed me together for around one hour and a half.
The written quiz contains questions related to mathematics, algorithm, Java programming and database(SQL).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
An algorithm question related to dynamic programming. I am asked to write pseudo/real code by hand to solve that problem.