eBay Software Engineer interview experience

I moved through four of the stages pretty well, but the last system design round went badly enough that it soured the experience.

The sequence started with an initial system design round, which I passed. Then I had two rounds of coding and algorithms, also passed. After that, there was a behavioral conversation with a research manager that surprised me—it didn’t feel like typical behavior-story probing and instead leaned toward another design-style discussion based on the tech world. I did well there too, nearly landing everything perfectly.

The final round was the issue: the interviewer