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      Data Scientist Interview

      19 Feb 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at PayPal (Bengaluru) in Jan 2025

      Interview

      First round interview completely on SQL. Interview was conducted on hackerrank and lasted for about 45 mins. The questions were mainly based on window partitions, advanced joins, aggregations etc. Interviewer was more interested in knowing the though process, so some syntax errors were warranted but logical errors seemed to be an issue with them.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. Display Number of customers, merchant customers and consumer customers by country sorted by desending order of number of all customers that have atleast 500 customers 2.Display For each Year of transaction, number of transactions, number of transactions with amount >50 USD, number of transactions with amount > 100 USD 3.Assume transaction date gets stored as a string of format mm-dd-yyyy, and one cust_id became stored as null across all tables, and assume leading spaces in cust_id stored in transaction data, How do you find the number of transactions, and transaction value in USD 4. Bin customers into their total transaction value (USD) in 2024, bin the customers into 90-100 percentile , 80 to 90 percentile .... 0-10 percentile ### before you start: there could be some customers who have 0 transaction (these will not be transaction table but they will be in dim_customer table) ### Display ### Percentile bin || Total transaction value (USD) || Total number of customers || Transaction value per customer Sort the number of transactors for each country at a daily level #### Create groups using the following logic, for each country, if the today's number of transactors is + or - 5% of yesterdays transactors keep them in the same group, otherwise assign them to a new group #### Free hint : group can be integer numbers as values. Create a Transactional behaviour table (using common table expressions optionally) and randomly sample 5 records from the above table and print the results
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      PayPal response
      1y
      Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!

      Other Data Scientist interview reviews for PayPal

      Data Scientist Interview

      31 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Hyderābād
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at PayPal (Hyderābād)

      Interview

      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
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      PayPal response
      2mo
      Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!

      Data Scientist Interview

      2 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at PayPal (Dublin, Dublin)

      Interview

      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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      PayPal response
      3mo
      Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!

      Data Scientist Interview

      23 Jan 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Los Angeles, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at PayPal (Los Angeles, CA)

      Interview

      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

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Implement a variation of binary sort
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      PayPal response
      4mo
      Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!

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