PayPal Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience
Anonymous User
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Apr 06, 2026

I have recently interviewed with PayPal for SSE role. It was a pool hire, not specific to any team. Below is my experience.


Round 1: This was a DSA round. I was asked below leetcode question with variation of it: https://leetcode.com/problems/steps-to-make-array-non-decreasing/description/


Round 2: This was a HLD round. I was asked to design a Web Crawler.


Round 3: This round was also a DSA round. I was asked only one question: https://leetcode.com/problems/zigzag-conversion/description/


The rounds were too frustrating and long. It almost took 4 months to complete 3 rounds. I feel like it was a waste of my time. Even all my rounds went well, they did not give any clear decision or feedback.


Also find my below interview experiences:

Amazon SDE 2: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7709868/amazon-sde-2-interview-experience-prime-xq7rx/

Target SSE: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7714447/target-india-interview-experience-sr-eng-arfi/

Ebay SSE: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7725248/ebay-sde-3-interview-experience-ebay-liv-b5t0/

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