I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at PayPal
Interview
I was contacted by a campus recruiter saying that a hiring manger would like to interview me for Data Scientist position (campus level). At the time of my scheduled interview, instead of the interviewer mentioned by the recruiter, I received a call from a hiring manager from some other team for an intern position. After this confusion, the actual hiring manager called in around 10 minutes late and sounded very unprepared/ uninterested to take the interview. He asked questions on technologies which he mentioned that are no longer used in the team anymore. Overall, it was a not positive experience definitely.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1)What do you know about Central Limit Theorem? Can you prove CLT? Applications?
2) If you know for certain that a friend of yours has 2 children and that atleast one of them is a boy, what is the probability that the other is also a boy?
3) If you merge 2 datasets in SAS without BY statement, how would the resultant output be?
Average, the interviewer asked questions fro specific topics but the JD has too wide topics. Kind of not sticked to JD. One Should be ready with open mind and give the interview
PayPal response
2mo
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Process was very well managed by the internal recruiter. Technical rounds of average difficulty and then final rounds with Israeli based managers were strangely confrontational - vague questions with no clarification or context. I would apply again to the company but avoid that particular team if possible.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL statements and Python snippet and peer review exercises.
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Started with an introductory recruiter call, followed by a virtual technical interview. The interview consisted of behavioral and technical parts. Was asked about my motivation for applying to Paypal, previous internship experiences, and a leetcode-style question
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