PayPal Frontend Engineer, Karat Interview Prep (Recent Candidates Please Share!)

Hey everyone, I have a PayPal Frontend Engineer interview coming up that uses Karat for the first round.

I’ve heard it includes -15 minutes of debugging/theoretical JavaScript questions and 1–2 easy-to-medium LeetCode-style problems (like checking if rows/columns of a matrix contain unique numbers)

• What topics or question types actually came up?
• How deep were the JS theory questions (closures, async/await, prototypes, etc.)?
• Any specific problem patterns I should focus on?
• Was there any React or DOM-specific content?

What do I need to focus and practice on?