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      Decision Scientist Interview

      Jun 28, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Tel Aviv-Yafo)

      Interview

      2 hours, 5 questions, 2 SQL code unrelated to fraud and 3 subjective text answers about various cases. Once I passed that the next interview was with 2 current decision scientists. Very professional interview, they were very kind and asked questions without rushing me. The first ~30 minutes was checking how would I commit fraud on Paypal. The first case (with me suggesting and them asking) led us to discuss the idea of account take over. The second one I suggested eventually led to stolen credentials. It's good to know how you would commit each one of these frauds as that's what they asked about from start to finish. How would you bring the funds in? If you have others' details, when would you use them? Registering from your house or theirs? how would you withdraw the money. The next ~30 minutes they showed me two transactions and asked if I'd approve or disapprove. They were more interested in my chain of thought and wanted to hear both sides of the transaction (so even if I approved what were my concerns that maybe not approve). At the end we spoke a bit in English to see I know how where I shared about myself. 

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Got a list of users transaction and was asked to whom I'd give a ~20$ reward. The condition is he needs to have had at least 3 transactions. You need to identify who's relevant: Some users have only a low number of transactions, some are selling things, some are only buying, some using it for automatic sales compared to active use. Explain your answer
      Answer question

      Question 2

      trying to identify connected users, what 5 data points would help you understand that someone is the same person
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      suggest a new way to measure active accounts, compared to the one they propose which is at least 3 payments in a month.
      Answer question

      Question 4

      SQL query that mainly checks you know how to extract text from a string. got a list of payments you need to extract the Month and year from the text, for example text like: APR19Somethingelse
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      Got a list of users (I think) and you need to return the 3 top receivers and 3 lowest receivers for the month of June 2022
      1 Answer
      1
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      PayPal response
      3y
      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 Decision Scientist Interview Reviews for PayPal

      Decision Scientist Interview

      Sep 11, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at PayPal (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Jun 2025

      Interview

      I interviewed for a Decision Scientist role back in June 25. The process started with an onsite interview in Tel Aviv with two team members, May and Matan I think , who were both kind and challenged me with thoughtful questions around fraud scenarios. The second stage was a home assignment with a dataset. It wasn’t overly complex but required real effort , it took me about 5 hours. A week later, I was invited to present my work to May and Avital (the group manager). That session went well: it was a constructive debate, and I felt confident and comfortable. After that, I had a short followup Zoom call with Nadav (Director) , which was also positive. And then… complete silence!. For over a month, I followed up multiple times with HR, only to be completely ignored. Eventually, after all the time and effort I had invested, I received nothing but a generic rejection email. I’ve been through many interview processes, but this was one of the most unprofessional and disrespectful experiences I’ve had: no feedback, no acknowledgment of the effort, and a total lack of communication now 11/9 and still no feedback

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      identity fraud mainly questions .
      Answer question
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      Decision Scientist Interview

      Oct 21, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Apr 2025

      Interview

      First a Phone interview to get to know you better and then two office interviews, they gave me a paper with questions of certain situations with users and asked me to answer them how I would react or classify the user based on their activities and why.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      you have a user that logged in from the mobile app after 2 years of inactivity from India and their home address is the USA, after 2 days they booked a hotel in India. how would you flag this ?
      Answer question
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      PayPal response
      9mo
      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!

      Decision Scientist Interview

      Feb 25, 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at PayPal (Tel Aviv-Yafo)

      Interview

      home assignment with both open questions and sql code, followed by two technical interviews about fraud and cutoff optimization, each 1.5 hours, followed by an hour conversation with two team leads

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      If you were a fraudster how would you steal money from paypal
      Answer question
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      PayPal response
      1y
      Thank you for sharing your interview experience and welcome to the PayPal family!

      PayPal interviews FAQs

      • Decision Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at PayPal with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 70% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Decision Scientist roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PayPal overall takes an average of 25 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at PayPal as a Decision Scientist according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:

        One on one interview:  26%

        Presentation:  21%

        Phone interview:  21%

        Skills test:  16%

        Drug test:  5%

        Personality test:  5%

        Group panel interview:  5%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(672) ;
        2. Senior Software Engineer(332) ;
        3. Customer Service Representative(259) ;
        4. Data Scientist(143) ;
        5. Product Manager(140) ;
        6. Manager(134) ;
        7. Risk Analyst(124) ;
        8. Software Engineer II(112) ;
        9. Customer Solutions Agent(110) ;
        10. Senior Product Manager(99) ;
        11. Director(98) ;
        12. MTS1 Software Engineer(93) ;
        13. Senior Manager(87) ;
        14. Software Engineer III(83) ;
        15. Collections Specialist(79) .


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