eBay·Software Engineer

eBay Software Engineer interview experience

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My interview started with a quick, very timed self-introduction—something like three minutes—to set context about my background.

After that, the hiring manager dug into my past projects, not just what I built, but the technical design choices behind them. We talked through leadership and system design elements like the trade-offs I made, the problems I ran into, and how I ended up solving them. Then the pace shifted into basic technical foundations: Java fundamentals and topics like the Java Virtual Machine, plus Spring-related concepts such as reflection, circular dependencies, and dependency injection.

Next came a more substantial design exercise where I had to design a data query system with scalability and peak

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