🎯 Banking & fintech
PayPal interview
Engineering / QA (SDET loop may differ)
ℹ️ Public reports for PayPal describe its general engineering interview loop; the QA/SDET loop may differ by team.
Interview rounds
- 1HackerEarth test (2 questions, 75 min)
- 2Two problem-solving rounds
- 3System design round
- 4Hiring manager round
What they focus on
- Optimal DSA solutions
- Low- and high-level design
- OOP in real examples
- Java, concurrency, SQL
💡 Tip: Brute force is not enough — interviewers push for the optimal solution.
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Practice questions for PayPal
Filter by your experience, and pick a language, automation tool or database for theory and coding. Topics reported for PayPal come first; the “asked in most interviews” lists are general questions worth preparing for any company. Full question bank →
Reported for PayPal: Java, SQL. Other topics are here too — what you get asked depends on the team, so check the job description.
Theory
18 questions
Asked in most interviews · 29
29 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 34
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for PayPal. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
34 questions
Coding
11 questions
Asked in most interviews · 14
14 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 9
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for PayPal. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
9 questions
Behavioural & situational
No behavioural & situational questions were reported specifically for PayPal — prepare the common ones below.
Asked in most interviews · 26
26 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 7
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for PayPal. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
7 questions
Sources
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