eBay Software Engineer interview experience

It was structured as two rounds: the first round was a DSA problem-solving session where the prompt was about a graph-style problem similar to “number of islands.” After that, the second round shifted toward discussions that involved system design.

The first round mostly tested whether I could reason through graph data structures and get to a correct approach, and it felt like the interviewer wanted to see how I translated the problem into a clean solution path rather than just jump to code. Once that was done, the conversation moved into system design where the emphasis was more on how I’d