Senior Software Engineer In Quality Interview Experience - San Jose, California
Process
Applied on their company website.
Received an email and phone screen was scheduled. It went fine, but then there was no reply from the company. When I followed up, they said, "You hear positive feedback. You will be contacted by the recruiter soon." Then an on-site interview was scheduled.
Questions
Telephone:
What is immutable in Java. Make test cases for a function which returns the dimension of a box with input parameters as width, length, and height. Other testing and agile related questions.
On Site:
Given a huge file, find duplicate strings and return how many times each appeared. Given a table of employee and salary, find the highest salary in each department.
On site:
Given an array of numbers, find the pair of two numbers whose sum is less than six. Design an RDBMS for a stock market.
Given an array of size 100 with sequential numbers, find the single duplicate number. Return the 2nd highest salary from the salary table.
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eBay Work Experiences
- 3.0Senior Software EngineerSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesMarch 26, 2016Pros: Good pay, compensation, and benefits, with free breakfast.Cons: Do not expect anything, then you are good.
- 1.0Nearly 5 years there. What was I thinking?Senior Staff Software Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesSeptember 12, 2008Pros: I worked there for nearly 5 years. It was just barely acceptable when I started. It was hopeless when I left. If you're in marketing, you will probably love it. Engineering and Product Management will hate you with a burning passion, but eBay is a marketing company that happens to (be forced to) do tech.Cons: A super political work environment - I've worked at banks with less political BS. Very top-heavy. There is lots of talk about "innovation" and "work-life balance", but it is all lip service. Innovation does not happen here (not even in the labs or search). Work-life balance is a joke. I have to tell a story regarding WLB: at one of the (very, very frequent) organizational all-hands meetings, management decided to talk about the "work-life balance" initiative. It was a 9 AM meeting and, shock, I was there - because I was up all night working around a severe bug in the ridiculous V3 codebase. So I started nodding off in the meeting - that's irony for you. In the nominal 40-hour work week, I would spend a minimum of 15 hours in meetings. Every week. Every. Single. Week. And for about 3 weeks every quarter, I would spend over 25 hours a week in meetings. If for some reason you have to work with the CS teams in SLC, God help you. The single most back-biting group of vermin I've ever seen. Just horrendous.
- 5.0The eBay internship program is one of the bestSoftware Engineering Intern • Current EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesSeptember 8, 2020Pros: Friendly community, very supportive, and the URP team is always going above and beyond for the intern experience.Cons: Working virtually is a downside to me, but it's not specific to eBay.
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