PayPal·Data Scientist

PayPal Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

BengaluruPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter reach-out, I moved into a sequence that felt anchored in data science fundamentals and applied problem solving.

Early on, I had a call where I talked through my resume and past experience, plus behavioral questions—nothing overly tricky, more like a calibration of how I’d explain my work. Then the process turned technical, with rounds that tested ML and data skills in a way that closely matched real projects.

I worked through coding and technical evaluations that emphasized SQL and Python, and I also had to discuss projects in depth. Some of the questions touched modern AI/ML techniques, including transformer-style modeling and LSTM knowledge, and other rounds covered statistics and probability and

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