I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at PayPal (Chennai) in Mar 2012
Interview
Horrible experience
--badly scheduled-wasted more time waiting for people to interview me than
the time spent on interviews...
--questions asked were completely unrelated to the role.
-interviewers were unwilling to listen to your answers before passing on their judgements-had very huge egos
-Left a very bad experience.
-The work that you would actually do is more around reporting,while in the interviews,they make it sound as if it's the analytical powerhouse of the world
-HR doesn't have the courtesy to follow-up on the interviews with a firm decision.
-Avoid this company like the plague --there are better,though low-paying jobs in the world
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Estimate the number of saris sold in Chennai on a day.
Interview round 1 was good. Round 2 was not. The problem is people with 4 to 5 years of experience take the interview for similar roles as them. People prepare some questions and solutions based on their approach. And when you provide an alternative approach , and explain it during simulation, they are unable to understand. Also I feel there is no diversity in the teams . Round 1 ,2 3 interviewers belonged to the same linguistic community. I fewl that is taken into account t while selecting people as well. So it's not fully fair. I get a feeling that Paypal used to be good earlier and no more now. Though you answer all the questions , you are not progressed to the next round and no reasoning is given
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic quant , analytics questions
Write code to fit linear regression model.
Vintage views in SQL
A simulation problem using strings
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal in Oct 2020
Interview
It had 3-4 rounds, 2 of them were tech.
SQL, python questions were asked.
Later a case study on p2p payment gateway was given
the interview was virtual.
SQL & python case study had to be solved live while the interview was going on
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It had 3-4 rounds, 2 of them were tech.
SQL, python questions were asked.
Later a case study on p2p payment gateway was given
the interview was virtual.
SQL & python case study had to be solved live while the interview was going on
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (New York, NY) in Apr 2019
Interview
The whole interview process was smooth. I had to fly to Chennai office to be part of the several rounds of interviews from teams across globe, all of us were technically grounded and sensible .