eBay·Software Engineer

eBay Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Seattle, WAPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with coding constraints that were spelled out clearly, and I felt like I could follow the rules of the problem.

I coded through the task according to what I was told, and when I got to the middle of the session, the interviewer silently changed what they expected. I continued in good faith and completed the parts that matched the adjusted instructions.

At one point the interviewer actually acknowledged that what I’d produced looked solid, but I still wasn’t given the chance to finish the final section that would have taken only a few more minutes. After time ran out, the feedback that I received leaned toward a problem-solving deficiency, which didn’t align with how the interview played out in the

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