I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Jul 2025
Interview
Initial recruiter screening and forwarded to initial tech screening i.e 1 hr, 20 minutes iOS Fundamental, 20 minutes Discussion and Analysis of the small iOS application and last 20 min DSA easy to medium.
Recruiter shared that I cleared the tech screening and forwarded to lead recruiter, they we had screening again and lead recruiter shared me about the next rounds in detail and invited me to final loop rounds. 1. iOS role specialization(went well, it was more like pair programming) 2. Mobile System Design(went above average, 3. DSA(disaster, hard graph problem) and 4. Behavioral(went well, I had great time having this) each 1 hr.
As expected the results were not good. Since it was my first interview after coming to USA. I had lot of learnings from it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to design(LLD) related to deep linking in iOS role specialization
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Glider.AI screening with poorly set up questions that waste your time on figuring out how to run the tests. After 2 coding questions there were 7 coding "fill in the blank" questions and finally 5 multiple choice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Various LeetCode questions, seemly randomly picked and poorly set up
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First round is pretty light. Second round is technical 20min is just iOS discussion then 40min 1 Leetcode easy or medium. Then it’s in person 4 rounds of interview followed by team allocation after.
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