eBay Software Engineer interview experience

First there was a phone call that centered on solving system design. Then I went to an on-site coding task that lasted about two or three hours.

After that, I had more technical interviews: one with a senior developer on the team, then another with the team leader that included another system design problem. The final stage was with the director, and that conversation was also technical—focused on designing a video game, along with additional questions tied to databases and system scaling.

It was clearly on the more difficult side, and I had to stay sharp across very different formats back