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Passed Two Fraud Rounds Despite a Rocky Performance

PayPalData Scientist · Onsite · Jan 2026

I applied to a few PayPal positions before Christmas, and two of my applications got recruiter calls. One of them was for a Fraud DS role and moved to interviews fast. The interviewer was someone from the same team based in India, and the interview was at 10:30pm Eastern. They asked about fraud, statistics, SQL, and Python. The second round was with the hiring manager, also based in India, at aro…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jan 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.