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PayPal Software Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a PayPal Software Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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CodingStart here. 13 questions · ~158 min
Coin Change for Vending MachineMedium
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Use bottom-up dynamic programming to find the fewest coins needed to make a vending-machine amount.

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Pairs of Songs Divisible by 60Medium
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Count duration pairs divisible by 60 using remainder frequencies in linear time.

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Execution7 questions · ~85 min
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System Design13 questions · ~158 min
Designing a Parking Garage SystemHard
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Assesses end-to-end system design thinking including data flow and components.

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SQL & Data Manipulation4 questions + 3 drills · ~78 min
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Security & Infrastructure6 questions · ~73 min
Terraform vs AWS CDK vs CloudFormationMedium
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Evaluates infrastructure-as-code knowledge and tradeoffs across tooling.

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Behavioral & Leadership4 questions · ~48 min
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More topics3 questions · ~36 min
Inventory Stock Alert PipelineMedium
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Evaluates event-driven pipeline design and correct alerting logic for inventory state transitions.

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Two Pointers and Node.js Event LoopMedium
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Tests algorithmic technique knowledge and Node.js runtime understanding.

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