eBay Software Engineer interview experience (2024)

eBay Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

San Jose, CAPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had to complete a pre-interview project that genuinely took a lot of time—over five or six hours—to make it feel production-ready, which was the expectation going in.

When the interview happened, though, my effort and the actual work weren’t really met with the detailed discussion I expected.

What stood out most was how often the interviewer questioned whether I personally wrote the code. It came up repeatedly in a way that felt less like curiosity and more like doubt, and it pulled the conversation away from evaluating the project on its merits. The interview was only scheduled for an hour and a half, but it ended abruptly after about fifteen minutes, with no real follow-up or deeper exploration.

I left feeling humiliated and disrespected, and honestly,

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eBay Software Engineer interview experience

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