eBay·Software Engineer

eBay Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jun 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I originally got recommended for the role through LinkedIn as a contractor, and then the process moved into two rounds of technical interviews.

Both rounds felt friendly, and each one gave me a timed task for about 45 minutes.

The first task related to binary trees, and I didn’t fully finish because of the specific requirements for formatting and outputting results. The second interview, though, went better—I completed the task completely, tested it, and felt more confident walking out.

Even so, I had to wait around three weeks for a decision, and it ended in a rejection with no feedback. What lingered was that the first round’s result seemed to matter a lot, because the second round didn’t feel like it could fully override what

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