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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

May 1, 2021
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Waste of time!

After three rounds of interviews that took 7 hours in total (2 tech screening calls and 5 hours of virtual onsite), they simply sent me a generic no-hire email.

No feedback, zero details.

Also, this was a Scala position, and during those 7 hours, no one asked any Scala (or FP) related questions at all!

The interviews were irrelevant; they were more focused on whether I remembered LeetCode algorithms than if I knew how to do my work.

During the first screening call, they forbade me to use Python's implementation of binary search and wanted me to write that from scratch.

That might be sufficient for new grads, but not for more senior candidates.

Questions

Nothing relevant to the role, mostly Leetcode.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the eBay Senior Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

0%
Pass Rate

eBay's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral0%
Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for eBay's Senior Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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