eBay·Software Engineer

eBay Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a hiring flow for a SWE-III role at TCGPlayer that felt extremely misaligned with what I’d been told.

In the recruiter screen, I was told the team was focused on modernization and that they cared about system migrations and event-driven pub-sub architecture, specifically mentioning Kafka plus SQS and SNS. The hiring manager screen was framed as purely behavioral, and they said the technical final would be centered on C# debugging.

I didn’t have a C# background, so I took that seriously and spent about a week drilling C# and debugging-style exercises. Even the scheduling messages from the recruiter confirmed it would be C#, with an expectation of coding plus system design or architecture in

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