PayPal·Software Engineer

PayPal Software Engineer interview experience

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Mountain View, CAPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After talking to a recruiter, I got invited to a Karat interview and scheduled it for the weekend.

The session had three parts: introductions, a partial project development exercise, and then a coding question. The interviewer was professional and helpful throughout, and the first two parts were genuinely easy if I was comfortable communicating.

The coding portion wasn’t difficult in concept, but the time limit became a problem. I had a working solution, but it wasn’t the most optimal approach, and because I was coding in an editor that wasn’t my usual IDE, it took longer when issues came up. I didn’t finish within the allotted time, and after the interview concluded I completed the

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