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      Software Engineer Interview

      11 Nov 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2011

      Interview

      I attended an online screening followed by two phone interviews. The first one was in C++ even though my resume is that for a Java Developer (with a little bit of C++). Next round was in Java. Both were coding centric, no deisgn-architecture-testing-process etc. I was asked to code on collabedit

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      What is the output from this code (assume int is 32 bit) int f(int n) { return n * f(n-1); } print(f(100));
      2 Answers

      Question 2

      Consider the following function: int f (int num) { int out = 0; for (; num > 0; num /= 10) { int d = num % 10; out *= 10; out += d; } return out; } 1) What does it do? 2) Write the same algorithm using recursion
      5 Answers

      Question 3

      We have the following schema of a table: create table Test (id number, name varchar2(32), desc varchar2(400)); create index index_test on Test (name); Which of the following statements will invoke an index scan by oracle execution plan a) select * from test where name='name'; b) select * from test where name like 'name%'; c) select * from test where name like '%name'; d) select * from test where name like '%name%';"
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      The string "paypal is the faster, safer way to send money" is written in a clockwise spiral pattern inside a square starting from the upper left corner: (you may want to display this pattern in a fixed font for better legibility). P A Y P A L F E R W A I A M O N Y S S D Y E T T R N E S O H E T S A F E Then read line after line: PAYPALFERWAIAMONYSSDYETTRNESOHETSAFE Write the code that will take a string, calculate the minimum square that will contain it and return the converted string: String convert(String text); convert("paypalisthefastersaferwaytosendmoney") should return "paypalferwaiamonyssdyettrnesohetsafe"
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      What is the output for grep 'c[oa]t' *.cpp | more in Unix ? Write a function to convert the string 'abcdabcdac' into 'a3b2c3d2'. Each charater is followed by the number of times in occurs in the original string. What is the order of this function? How would you improve it? Given table A with id, name and age write a query to display distinct pairs or people with same name. Why are indexes used? There was a question based on Diamond inheritance hierarchy in C++. What are static functions in C++? What is the difference between simple function, virtual function and a pure virtual function? What are templates in C++?
      Answer question
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      Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!

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      San Jose, CA
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      Application

      I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

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      PayPal response
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      Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!

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      6 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)

      Interview

      I interviewed 2 round, one front end, one hire manager, but didn’t move forward. The hr is helpful, the hire manager round asked about system design questions, which I feel may cause the rejection.

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      Question 1

      Normal front end interview questions, implement a fetching api small task
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      PayPal response
      2mo
      Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!

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