The first round was a phone screen with a recruiter. I then spoke to an engineering manager. We jumped straight into Xcode, where I was tested on my live iOS coding ability.

Phone initial interview, Leet code, another Leet code, data structure, architecture, culture, management. I think Paypal is a good company to work for but the interview process for iOS developer positions does not make sense. All the interviews that I had were with backend developers that do not know anything about the Swift language and the hiring manager did not know in what part of the interview process I was. The first two LeetCode interviews were a waste of time since they do not prove how good of an iOS developer you are. They need to understand that we are not backend developers, yes it is important to know data structures to make your time complexity fast, but more important than that is ask the candidate to do things related to the job with iOS DEVELOPERS not Java or any other languages. I bet that backend developers would have the same feelings if they had interviews with iOS DEVELOPERS that do not know anything about their languages. Paypal you need to review your interview process ASAP.

Interview process was a nightmare. They gave me an Xcode project to open and to work with, with stubbed out methods. I had two interviewers, and when we started they weren't sure who was going to interview me. One person was shadowing the interviewer and they seemed confused as to who was going to be doing what. The interviewer was not helpful and had a really heavy accent, and I had a hard time understanding what he was saying (English is my native language). I had to ask what he was saying 2-3 times because I could not understand him. I finally got the requirements working in about 45 minutes but ran out of time, as they cut off my interview with five minutes to spare. It was also a live coding environment, so you couldn't look anything up including old projects or syntax and I don't think it was a proper test of what the working environment should be. Most of the time was spend trying to understand how the test project was set up and what the interviewer was saying.