PayPal·Software Engineer

PayPal Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt long and genuinely hard, even though I didn’t think it was completely out of reach.

I was interviewing for an L5 role, and the format made it clear they wanted depth. First there was a Karat screening call that lasted about an hour. It included some quick system design trivia before moving into a LeetCode-style question; mine was a disguised, slightly more complex two-sum.

After that, I hit two more heavy technical rounds. The coding segment had two problems: one matched something like LeetCode 560, and the other was the part that threw me off—it came as a blank IDE with no method signatures or tests, so after I verbalized the solution I was basically coding blind and

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