eBay·Software Engineer

eBay Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My recruiter outreach led to a more direct technical path.

After a conversation with the recruiter, I moved into a round where the interviewer started by grounding the discussion in my background and experience. We talked about what I’d been working on, and then I jumped into a medium LeetCode-style problem involving recursion.

I spent time walking through a non-optimized approach first, then the interviewer pushed on tradeoffs, asking me about memory and time costs. From there I iteratively improved the solution, tightening it up for performance and spelling out the changes clearly as I went. The actual coding part wasn’t extremely long, and once I

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