PayPal·Software Engineer

PayPal Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt very DSA-heavy and distinctly harder than the usual “medium LeetCode” reputation.

I first hit an online assessment where I was asked two hard problems—one on trees and one on graphs—and I had only about 1 hour 30 minutes to solve both. The time pressure was real, and by the time I was switching between those topics, I could feel the difficulty compounding.

After that, everything else kept leaning into core fundamentals rather than anything broadly behavioral. I went through three rounds overall: two technical coding rounds plus an HR-related technical screen. The technical conversations were centered on DSA and computer science fundamentals like OOP and DBMS concepts.

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