PayPal·Backend Engineer

PayPal Backend Engineer interview experience

ExperiencedPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied through PayPal’s official careers portal and the process started with an online assessment.

The assessment came via a HackerRank link and asked me to solve two to three DSA-focused problems. I worked through them all, and then I moved on quickly to a technical round.

That technical interview was a 45-minute DS/Algo session centered on dynamic programming. It felt like a focused problem-solving conversation rather than a broad, multi-topic exam. Overall, the journey felt relatively tight and straightforward—assessment first, then a single targeted technical round—and it largely revolved around algorithmic fundamentals. I left with the sense that this stage was evaluating whether I

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