eBay·Software Engineer

eBay Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My early rounds felt unusually high-pressure and somewhat hard to read.

The process started with a first interview that quickly turned into a very tightly constrained, probe-heavy interaction. After a requirements check, the interviewer pushed me through more than ten questions one by one. Then I had to write my answers neatly, which took away the time I would’ve needed to complete one of the system design questions. By the time I realized how much was happening at once, it felt like I’d gotten boxed in.

The second round was equally time-limited and didn’t go smoothly for me either. I was asked to solve three problems within five minutes each—starting with

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