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The process took 3 days. I interviewed at PayPal in Jun 2009
Interview
I was hired through a 3rd party. The first round of interviews was held at 3rd party's company and I was asked to do an online test. The test was about 1 hour long, multiple choice questions about programming and UML concepts. About a week later I got a phone interview from Paypal which lasted about 30 minutes. Questions were mostly about object oriented programming concepts like polymorphisem and inheritance. The last round of interview was a group interview, 2 software engineer and 1 manager. I had to give a presentation about my last project and they asked me programming questions. lasted about 3 hours.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at PayPal (Scottsdale, AZ) in Apr 2011
Interview
It took about 5 hours. First round was the IQ tests. (ex: given a stack of penny, how do you determine if all the pennies can fill this room) Second round was finding programming errors on the pre-defined questions from the interviewer. You need to explained why there are errors and how to fix it. Next was writing code on white code for C++ exception handling. Then after that, it was the basic math function type question. (ex: given a number 1234, how do you reverse the number in 4321 format without using string.reverse). Next round is programming design.( ex: UML). Last round is with the manger. The discussion includes everything above plus oracle DB problems ( ex: indexes, how to do update to the live db tables etc.) The whole interviewing process is long but not terribly hard.