Company interviews / PayPal
PayPal interview practice
96 coding questions are known to come up in PayPal interviews (16 easy, 64 medium, 16 hard), 4 of them in the last six months. The most common topics are Array, String, Hash Table, Sorting.
96Known questions
4Asked in last 6 months
64Medium
16Hard
Coding questions PayPal asks
From public company-tagged interview question lists. Most recent and most frequent first.
Easy 16Medium 64Hard 16
- Array65
- String26
- Hash Table22
- Sorting19
- Dynamic Programming19
- Binary Search13
- Two Pointers13
- Greedy11
- Matrix10
- Breadth-First Search9
- Math9
- Heap (Priority Queue)8
| Question | Difficulty | Asked recently |
|---|---|---|
| Zigzag Conversion | Medium | Yes |
| Minimum Absolute Difference | Easy | Yes |
| Longest Increasing Subsequence | Medium | Yes |
| Top K Frequent Elements | Medium | Yes |
| LRU Cache | Medium | — |
| Find Words That Can Be Formed by Characters | Easy | — |
| Count Vowel Strings in Ranges | Medium | — |
| Maximum Number of Integers to Choose From a Range I | Medium | — |
| Product of Array Except Self | Medium | — |
| Maximal Square | Medium | — |
| Number of Islands | Medium | — |
| Count the Number of Vowel Strings in Range | Easy | — |
| Time Needed to Rearrange a Binary String | Medium | — |
| Count Array Pairs Divisible by K | Hard | — |
| Number of Valid Move Combinations On Chessboard | Hard | — |
| Minimum Non-Zero Product of the Array Elements | Medium | — |
| Maximum Sum Obtained of Any Permutation | Medium | — |
| Paint House III | Hard | — |
| Coin Change | Medium | — |
| Word Search | Medium | — |
| Merge Intervals | Medium | — |
| Group Anagrams | Medium | — |
| Two Sum | Easy | — |
| Find Median from Data Stream | Hard | — |
| Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock | Easy | — |
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