eBay

Senior Software Engineer Front End Interview Experience

August 28, 2016

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview was a phone call, with live coding on Collabedit.

It covered some tricky CSS questions and some basic JavaScript questions.

The final question involved finding palindromes in a string.

The interview concluded with a discussion on why I'm interested in eBay.

Questions

Some CSS questions ask what the color of the text is.

How to do inheritance.

Find the palindromes in a string.

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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for eBay's Senior Software Engineer Front End interview process in United States.

eBay Work Experiences

Good work, less pay

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Austin, Texas, United States

Pros: You will learn so much. Great minds are around.

Cons: Middleman companies like Cognizant take all your money.

Good work, less pay

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Austin, Texas, United States

Pros: You will learn so much. Great minds are around.

Cons: Middleman companies like Cognizant take all your money.

Flexible hours, but have to work after hours

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

September 9, 2008

Pros: As an Engineer, our working hours are very flexible, but at a cost. You can be pulled into work 24 hours. You have opportunities to switch to different departments. You always learn some new technology.

Cons: You have to work after hours.

Flexible hours, but have to work after hours

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

September 9, 2008

Pros: As an Engineer, our working hours are very flexible, but at a cost. You can be pulled into work 24 hours. You have opportunities to switch to different departments. You always learn some new technology.

Cons: You have to work after hours.

Good work environment

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 20, 2022

Pros: Great people, good work environment. Good employee retention. Good programs for engagement and overall growth, including: * Study paths * Gifts all around the year * Group workout classes * Fun activities for employees * Good benefits

Cons: Depending on the team, the work-life balance is not very good.

Good work environment

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 20, 2022

Pros: Great people, good work environment. Good employee retention. Good programs for engagement and overall growth, including: * Study paths * Gifts all around the year * Group workout classes * Fun activities for employees * Good benefits

Cons: Depending on the team, the work-life balance is not very good.

Good work, less pay

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Austin, Texas, United States

Pros: You will learn so much. Great minds are around.

Cons: Middleman companies like Cognizant take all your money.

4.0
Good work, less pay
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Austin, Texas, United States
July 17, 2025
Pros: You will learn so much. Great minds are around.
Cons: Middleman companies like Cognizant take all your money.

Flexible hours, but have to work after hours

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

September 9, 2008

Pros: As an Engineer, our working hours are very flexible, but at a cost. You can be pulled into work 24 hours. You have opportunities to switch to different departments. You always learn some new technology.

Cons: You have to work after hours.

2.0
Flexible hours, but have to work after hours
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
September 9, 2008
Pros: As an Engineer, our working hours are very flexible, but at a cost. You can be pulled into work 24 hours. You have opportunities to switch to different departments. You always learn some new technology.
Cons: You have to work after hours.

Good work environment

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 20, 2022

Pros: Great people, good work environment. Good employee retention. Good programs for engagement and overall growth, including: * Study paths * Gifts all around the year * Group workout classes * Fun activities for employees * Good benefits

Cons: Depending on the team, the work-life balance is not very good.

5.0
Good work environment
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
January 20, 2022
Pros: Great people, good work environment. Good employee retention. Good programs for engagement and overall growth, including: * Study paths * Gifts all around the year * Group workout classes * Fun activities for employees * Good benefits
Cons: Depending on the team, the work-life balance is not very good.

eBay Interview Questions

Partition Equal Subset Sum

Determine if a given array of numbers can be divided into two subsets with equal sums. Essentially, can you split the array so both sides add up to the same value?

Dynamic Programming

Remove One Element to Make the Array Strictly Increasing

Determine if removing a single element from an array can make the remaining elements strictly increasing. You need to check if it's possible to obtain a strictly increasing sequence by deleting at most one element.

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

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