eBay Software Engineer interview experience

I did two back-to-back rounds, each lasting about 45 minutes with no breaks. The first round started with a brief swap-in from a Chinese interviewer and quickly moved into technical work: a short block of coding that felt fairly easy as a warm-up, followed by a deep discussion of my resume and internship projects. I was questioned about architecture and how I ran pipelines, with lots of focus on logging, metrics, and monitoring.

The second round was with a tech lead who explained the team’s business and structure and then asked about my interests. That session pushed into deeper coding: I