eBay Software Engineer interview experience

I was given a prompt focused on data manipulation, and it centered on things like HashMaps and comparators—more like filtering and transforming records than solving classic algorithm questions.

I also went into another interview with the expectation that LeetCode practice would transfer, but the interview didn’t feel like that at all. I was told to study LeetCode, yet the actual session felt closer to writing a service quickly within about 30 minutes. The interviewer didn’t come across as professional, and I was left with a sense that the questions were weird and misaligned with what I’d