PayPal·Software Engineer

PayPal Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied through the portal and ended up with a two-round process.

The first round was an online assessment on Hackerrank with two coding problems, and there was no language restriction. The second round was a DSA-focused interview that centered on standard recursion.

What made this feel distinct was how narrow the set of rounds was—no sprawling system design or multiple behaviors to navigate. It was mostly about whether I could solve the coding problems in the OA and then handle the recursion-focused DSA question.

I didn’t get an offer. My reflection was that a two-round pipeline leaves little room to recover from any single weak spot, because there

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