eBay Software Engineer interview experience

The format I went into was straightforward: iOS fundamentals, a system design round, and then a managerial round after that.

The technical difficulty centered around two hard DSA problems, and the interviews felt like they were testing both my fundamentals and how I’d reason through harder coding tasks rather than just surface-level knowledge. I also remember being mentally prepared for more depth in system design since the process explicitly included it, so I focused on structuring my thinking and explaining tradeoffs clearly as the discussion progressed.

Even though the steps themselves