eBay Software Engineer interview experience

The interviewer came in with a laptop and told me to sit while they kept configuring something. I sat for about 4–5 minutes with no introduction, then they introduced themselves quickly and asked me to do the same.

They then told me it was a live coding round using a sample GitHub project on his machine. The setup itself was painful: Android Studio was barely responsive and the emulator was freezing and lagging. I tried to help by suggesting checks like closing high-memory background tasks, but it wasn’t enough. Eventually I had to ask them to email the project link so I could build the app