eBay Software Engineer interview experience

But once the call started, the coding interview didn’t match what I expected. Half of it became technical questioning from the interviewer, and I wasn’t ready for that shift because I was focused on practicing coding problems. Then the last half felt disorganized and improvised—like questions were being made up on the spot, including topics that didn’t feel like anything I’d seen on LeetCode or Codesignal.

Even though the recruiter message sounded aligned to a normal coding screen, the mismatch between what I was told and what happened made the whole process feel disconnected. I ended up