eBay Software Engineer interview experience

One was focused on design, and then I moved into five additional rounds with the hiring manager. The topics mixed systems and product thinking, including how to handle server cache update conflicts and how to design an online buying and selling service.

Those rounds also included behavioral questions about previous work, plus a coding assessment centered on basic algorithms and data structures. Toward the end, I had a SQL round that used window functions, which was the kind of query topic that changes how you reason about data retrieval.

Overall it was a full loop with a lot of different