I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2013
Interview
Interviewed with Paypal after graduating from college in December 2013. Process took about a month. Two phone interviews, final on-site interview which consisted of 5 hour long rounds of face to face interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were no difficult algorithmic questions. If you know your basics on algorithms and data structures you should be fine (I was asked a tree questions, and array pattern search question). I interviewed for a position in mobile sdk dev so the interviews focused mainly on architecture and design. Practice your object oriented design, and think of how to design things to securely and to scale (client/server side caching, security, etc.). These questions can be particularly tricky for someone coming right out of college. Also, Paypal values a good culture fit so be enthusiastic, sociable, and confident.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at PayPal (Chennai) in Dec 2011
Interview
Campus Interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Difficult... None. All were fundamental CS questions that anyone with clear concepts of DS and Algo can answer. I was asked about time complexity, BST deletion and DFS. Pretty straightforward stuff.