PayPal·Software Engineer

PayPal Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

VellorePosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The beginning of my process started with an online coding test, and then the shortlisted step moved into a face-to-face interview.

After that came an HR interview round.

The technical pressure felt real, and the interviewer mainly focused on DSA problems. They also asked about my internship and projects, and SQL came up as something relevant for the evaluation. My experience was that the second interview was where things became most challenging, and I wasn’t able to clear it.

I didn’t receive an offer. Looking back, it was a difficult but still educational experience—my reflection was that the evaluation was heavily skewed toward problem-solving fundamentals and specific topics like SQL, so missing on that depth ended

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