eBay·Backend Engineer

eBay Backend Engineer interview experience

Medium

Positive

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into an onsite that ended up being five rounds long.

Each interviewer started with a short, casual chat—about 10 to 15 minutes—where we talked about the technologies being used and the kinds of problems the team was working on. It felt like a quick deep dive before the “real” evaluation started.

What surprised me was how different their system design interviews were from the typical end-to-end style. Instead of being asked to design a whole service from scratch, I was given narrow scenarios with only a few modules to focus on. That constraint changed how I organized my thoughts, since I had to zoom in rather than zoom out.

By the end, it was

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