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.
Interview questions [1]
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...
After recruiter screening, there were four rounds. Two technical rounds, system design and hiring manager. Technical rounds were medium leetcode types. System design round asked about URL shortening service combined with hiring manager round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In technical rounds, sorting algorithm, array manipulation, java collection framework.
Two interviews, one just a general question interview asking basic questions like experience, why I want to work at paypal, weaknesses etc. Seciond was with engineer with system architecture questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions are sepcific to experience. Why you implemented this system using X instead of Y?
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Very responsive and understanding the candidate.
They cared about my concerns and changed the pace of the interview process. They listen to the candidate properly.
Very responsive and understanding the candidate.
They cared about my concerns and changed the pace of the interview process. They listen to the candidate properly.