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PayPal Software Engineer III interview questions

based on 25 ratings - Updated Feb 10, 2026

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Software Engineer III Interview

May 13, 2015

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

Interview

I had a phone screen and then on the site interview. The phone screen was pretty basic with experience and behavioral related questions. The onsite interview was full day with 3 people interviewing. First two were very technical and they asked me questions about Informatica, SQL joins, optimization and perl scripts. It wasnt that hard but not too easy too. The last person was a manager and was asking more about behavioral and co-ordination related questions.

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Question 1

1. Write a script to remove duplicates from a file and then identify outliners and replace them with a default value and load into MYSQL. 2. Which is the most cost efficient transformation in Informatica and what would you use instead to do the same job more efficiently. 3. What is screw in Teradata and how to identify it and tune the query etc...

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Software Engineer III Interview

Mar 31, 2015

Anonymous employee

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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Chennai) in Jan 2012

Interview

In total 7 rounds of interview. All are F2F interviews. One round in week end, followed by 6 other interviews in two week days. Java concepts, Threading, Ds and algo, Design, Managerial questions. All questions scattered around above mentioned topics. All interviews spawned around 45 minutes to 1 hour. Will be asked to write some programs and design for a situation.

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Scenario based questions and practical design issues

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Software Engineer III Interview

Mar 30, 2015

Anonymous employee

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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at PayPal in Jan 2015

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I interviewed on many different teams and the interview style differed from team to team. The interview process was pretty standard. Ranged from your typical algorithm questions to javascript stuff since they are now heavily invested in JS/Node. It really depends on the team and the job.

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Question 1

Explain this: var Bob = { name: "Bob", name_fn: function(){ return this.name; } } console.log(Bob.name_fn()) //"Bob" var fn = Bob.name_fn console.log(fn()) //undefined

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Software Engineer III Interview

May 13, 2015

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

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

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Software Engineer III Interview

Mar 31, 2015

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Chennai) in Jan 2012

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Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Scenario based questions and practical design issues

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Software Engineer III Interview

Mar 30, 2015

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at PayPal in Jan 2015

Interview

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Explain this: var Bob = { name: "Bob", name_fn: function(){ return this.name; } } console.log(Bob.name_fn()) //"Bob" var fn = Bob.name_fn console.log(fn()) //undefined

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