eBay Software Engineer interview experience

It started with a tech screening call and then expanded into multiple follow-ups—one system design round, one interview with a hiring manager, and several coding rounds, all of which were described as hard.

What made it harder emotionally was that the flow felt messy. I got the impression that multiple interviewers didn’t have prepared questions, so there was a sense of disorganization during the calls rather than a clean, consistent evaluation. Even though every interviewer was focused on technical skills, the lack of structure made it feel like I was constantly resetting.

By the end, I