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      Decision Scientist Interview

      4 Aug 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Timonium, MD

      Other Decision Scientist interview reviews for PayPal

      Decision Scientist Interview

      11 Sept 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      No offer
      Negative experience
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at PayPal (Timonium, MD) in Jan 2020

      Interview

      Was just called out of the blue (yes not emailed first, just straight up called) and asked if I am still in interested in the position I had applied to 2 months ago. Then the recruiter set me up for an interview with the HM the following Friday. Interview was an hr long. They’d like you to have some financial knowledge (HM was surprised that he had to deal with a non-financially inclined analyst) and be quick on your feet with mental math as it’s a case interview coming right up ! Look for simple but deep (multiple sub questions in 1 overarching question ) finance case interviews . Learn to calculate simple things like ROI etc. Was certainly not ready for it because there are no resources online for this position and the recruiter was super duper unhelpful even after asking multiple times on how to prep. There is barely any behaviourial questions . HM talked about herself and her role a lot . Barely enough time to chat except to ask her questions , which the HM hurried me along after a few mistakes. This is a virtual video interview . Give it a no-opinion because it wasn’t really a swimming process but it was at least straight forward.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Why this position ?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      They asked me about an insurance company and wanted to know about the premium needed to be charged to breakeven if the insurance company released claims worth $2,000 a person. Had only 1% of insurance company customers filed a claim, what would be that breakeven on the premium? Then she followed up with another fact that it costs $1 per person to do a mail campaign, while only 4% responded and 50% of that converted, what's the new breakeven? On top of that, she asked what I'd need charge in premium if I wanted a profit of $10000 IF we had a fixed cost of $120 person . I’d need to consider the number gotten from last sub-question , when answering this.
      1 Answer
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at PayPal (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Jun 2025

      Interview

      I interviewed for a Decision Scientist role back in June 25. The process started with an onsite interview in Tel Aviv with two team members, May and Matan I think , who were both kind and challenged me with thoughtful questions around fraud scenarios. The second stage was a home assignment with a dataset. It wasn’t overly complex but required real effort , it took me about 5 hours. A week later, I was invited to present my work to May and Avital (the group manager). That session went well: it was a constructive debate, and I felt confident and comfortable. After that, I had a short followup Zoom call with Nadav (Director) , which was also positive. And then… complete silence!. For over a month, I followed up multiple times with HR, only to be completely ignored. Eventually, after all the time and effort I had invested, I received nothing but a generic rejection email. I’ve been through many interview processes, but this was one of the most unprofessional and disrespectful experiences I’ve had: no feedback, no acknowledgment of the effort, and a total lack of communication now 11/9 and still no feedback

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      identity fraud mainly questions .
      Answer question
      1

      Decision Scientist Interview

      21 Oct 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Apr 2025

      Interview

      First a Phone interview to get to know you better and then two office interviews, they gave me a paper with questions of certain situations with users and asked me to answer them how I would react or classify the user based on their activities and why.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      you have a user that logged in from the mobile app after 2 years of inactivity from India and their home address is the USA, after 2 days they booked a hotel in India. how would you flag this ?
      Answer question
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      PayPal response
      7mo
      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!

      Decision Scientist Interview

      25 Feb 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at PayPal (Tel Aviv-Yafo)

      Interview

      home assignment with both open questions and sql code, followed by two technical interviews about fraud and cutoff optimization, each 1.5 hours, followed by an hour conversation with two team leads

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      If you were a fraudster how would you steal money from paypal
      Answer question
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      PayPal response
      1y
      Thank you for sharing your interview experience and welcome to the PayPal family!

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