PayPal·Backend Engineer

PayPal Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Tel Aviv-YafoPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After my CV made it through, I went through a recruiter code session where I had about 90 minutes to solve a LeetCode-style problem and explain my approach as I went.

That part was followed by being invited to an office, where I had two more interviews.

One of those office interviews was with a team member and lasted around an hour, focused more on conversation and understanding. Then the head of the team interviewed me as the final step.

I didn’t receive an offer. What surprised me was how quickly the process moved from explaining code to being evaluated in a more leadership/team-context conversation.

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