I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2015
Interview
There are 4 rounds. They mainly asked me the experiences in previous projects. They also asked me some design questions (distributed system) and algorithms questions. I thought it is easy but in retrospect, they seem don't like me. Three out of four are from India. They are very professional developer. Because they are contributors of some open source project.
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Trie Tree, Quick Sort, hadoop, JQuery, Linux CMD.etc
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at PayPal
Interview
i was techy, they focus on deep technical questions . the quality of questions were very good.
interviewer was very good and having good knowledge of technical things.
be prepared for paypal interview.
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full of technical. there will be around 7-8 technical rounds .
they will ask project related questions also.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at PayPal
Interview
A friend who worked at Paypal forwarded my resume to their internal recruiter and she set-up a phone screen for me.
The person called-up at the scheduled time and without bothering to introduce himself plunged right into asking me about my most recent project. Within 2-3 sentences he interrupted me and jumped to another section of my resume. Within 2-3 sentences of that he interrupted again and jumped to my education. I got the feeling that he was not really listening to me. I had taken a course in compilers several years ago and he then asked me to describe how to write a compiler. I mixed up a lexer and a parser in the first sentence and he got ticked off about that - rudely correcting me before I could correct myself. He then peppered me with questions that were absolutely irrelevant to the job I was applying for - example what is a fast-fourier transform and how is it used in signal processing? I was just taken aback at this question - I'm not a analog/digital processing electrical engineer nor do I play one on TV!
The interviewer came across as having a huge superiority complex - essentially being rude and condescending throughout the interview.
I narrated my experience to my friend and he confirmed that the person who interviewed has had several run-ins with his co-workers and management because of his attitude. Oh well.
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What is a fast-fourier transform and how is it used in signal processing? This was for a software-developer position!