I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at PayPal in June 2010
Interview
I was first interviewed by the recruiter, who is friendly and easy to communicate. She got back to me in timely manner with a phone interview arrangement with the hiring manager. However the interview with the hiring manager wasn't a professional experience. First, I she was absent and had a peer in her team to interview me with no advanced notice to me and to the recruiter. Second, the substitute interviewer wasn't prepared and no focus questions. She called the conversation off without giving me sufficient response time because she got to run for a meeting.
Had an initial phone screening with a recruiter, then completed two back-to-back Zoom interviews on the same day — one with a senior engineer and another with a technical product manager.
PayPal response
1mo
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I had 2 rounds interviews, one with the direct manager, the other one with skip manager. Both were very nice and friendly. The questions were very standardized product management questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you will launch a feature in Europe, what would you do?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2026
Interview
The interview process started with me sending 2 documents of products launch and projects that I’ve worked before with no context, after that the schedule a meeting with the hiring manager who was not paying attention during the interview. So it seemed odd
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PayPal response
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