PayPal interview questions
Updated Jun 3, 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
Mostly positive
How others got an interview
- 15%RecruiterRecruiter
- 14%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 11%Campus RecruitingCampus Recruiting
- 4%Staffing AgencyStaffing Agency
- 3%In PersonIn Person
- 3%OtherOther
Interview search
2,467 interviews
PayPal interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at PayPal as 53.8% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.12 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Account Manager and Design Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Learning And Development Specialist and Member of Technical Staff I roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at PayPal takes an average of 18 days when considering 530 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Analyst had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Software Development Engineer (SDE) II roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 120 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at PayPal according to 530 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 17%
Phone interview: 16%
Presentation: 10%
Background check: 8%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 2%
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