eBay Software Engineer interview experience

Across the rounds, I felt like I was landing the right messages and explaining my thinking clearly, and the technical part didn’t feel like a struggle.

After that, the coding plus system-design style discussion blended into how I’d scale a similar system. The coding portion itself was focused on finding the top k elements, where I first worked through building a counter map and then used a heap approach. Once I finished, the interviewer asked how I’d implement something comparable and how I’d scale it, so it wasn’t just about getting the right answer—it was about translating the approach