PayPal·Software Engineer

PayPal Software Engineer interview experience

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Easy

Negative

SingaporePosted Oct 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a recruiter-style check that quickly set expectations for DSA and coding, but the actual screening felt a little more mixed once it began.

I ended up doing an easy coding task in Python because I told the interviewer I wasn’t fully comfortable in Java at that moment. We then talked directly about how I felt about Java, plus basic OOP topics like overriding/overloading and abstract classes.

The technical portion also branched into system design and practical frontend questions. I remember covering an autocomplete-style design prompt, and then getting language/runtime comparisons that sounded like they were testing how well I understood React behavior—specifically the difference between state vs effect hooks. The round didn’t

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