PayPal·Software Engineer

PayPal Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

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San Jose, CAPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey started with an initial chat that felt pretty quick and focused on my background, followed by a coding round.

In that coding interview, I got a LeetCode medium tree-traversal style problem, and I had to walk through the solution while staying structured about how I approached it. Near the end, the interviewer also asked some questions about the company, so it wasn’t purely algorithm-only.

After that, I moved into the more role-specific conversations. One round was very communication-forward—done in Japanese with a small set of basic technical questions—so it tested whether I could explain myself clearly as much as whether I could code. Another technical interview leaned into the tools and

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