PayPal Software Engineer interview experience

I went through an online assessment first, then had a quick 15-minute recruiter screen. Not long after, I joined two back-to-back technical interviews that each ran about 45 minutes.

The first technical round was on Hackerrank with an engineer. I remember needing to get a strong pass rate—trying to hit 15 out of 15 test cases—and being expected to communicate my thought process while I worked. The second technical interview was more of a resume grill where the conversation stayed grounded in my bullet points, and then I did a simple verbal system design discussion.

The whole thing felt