I was referred by a friend and contacted by HR soon after.

The first round was a standard phone interview with CoderPad.

I passed the first round and was invited onsite a week later.

The onsite interview was a breeze; the questions were fair and not difficult. Some coding questions and some high-level design questions were asked, but nothing insanely difficult or things you couldn't figure out with basic CS fundamentals.

I do not like the kind of trick questions that became very popular in the Valley. You have to "study"/"memorize" your interviews, otherwise the interviewer would belittle you despite your work experience. This time eBay got it right.

Interview Topics:

• Number of ways to walk the matrix from (0,0) to (m,n), with and without obstacles.

• Given a binary tree, link nodes at the same level.

• Design a service. Things to consider given service constraints, SLA, and so on.

• Some behavior questions.

Current project and past projects on resume. Asked for in-depth implementation.