eBay

Senior Software QA Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

January 1, 2013

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Initial phone screen. After two days, I got a call to come for an on-site interview.

"Why should we hire you?" "Do you prefer to work alone or on a team?" "How do you handle pressure?"

Coordinating with the team was very smooth.

Overall, a good experience.

Questions

Given a scenario, come up with test cases. I'm interested in your approach.

And some technical questions regarding string manipulation.

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Interview Statistics

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

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

eBay's interview process for their Senior Software QA Engineer roles in San Jose, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral0%

Negative50%

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

eBay Work Experiences

Great company for good work-life balance

Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Work-life balance is great. Managers and employees are talented.

Cons: eBay is competing with Amazon, which is very hard to compete. eBay focuses a lot on everyday business rather than innovation. There have been multiple layoffs, which is always scary.

Great company for good work-life balance

Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Work-life balance is great. Managers and employees are talented.

Cons: eBay is competing with Amazon, which is very hard to compete. eBay focuses a lot on everyday business rather than innovation. There have been multiple layoffs, which is always scary.

WORST QA MANAGERS

Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: There is no reason to report to any QA manager. The reason is that they felt so insecure because they don't have anything to do apart from micromanagement or internal politics.

Cons: 10,000 cons if you join as QA. The sad part is if you report to the QA manager.

WORST QA MANAGERS

Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: There is no reason to report to any QA manager. The reason is that they felt so insecure because they don't have anything to do apart from micromanagement or internal politics.

Cons: 10,000 cons if you join as QA. The sad part is if you report to the QA manager.

Great Place, Too Relaxed

Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Great place. Good culture. Nice workmate relationship.

Cons: Too relaxed, less stress, etc., etc., etc.

Great Place, Too Relaxed

Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Great place. Good culture. Nice workmate relationship.

Cons: Too relaxed, less stress, etc., etc., etc.

Great company for good work-life balance

Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Work-life balance is great. Managers and employees are talented.

Cons: eBay is competing with Amazon, which is very hard to compete. eBay focuses a lot on everyday business rather than innovation. There have been multiple layoffs, which is always scary.

3.0
Great company for good work-life balance
Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee
San Jose, California, United States
May 29, 2020
Pros: Work-life balance is great. Managers and employees are talented.
Cons: eBay is competing with Amazon, which is very hard to compete. eBay focuses a lot on everyday business rather than innovation. There have been multiple layoffs, which is always scary.

WORST QA MANAGERS

Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: There is no reason to report to any QA manager. The reason is that they felt so insecure because they don't have anything to do apart from micromanagement or internal politics.

Cons: 10,000 cons if you join as QA. The sad part is if you report to the QA manager.

1.0
WORST QA MANAGERS
Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee
San Jose, California, United States
August 9, 2019
Pros: There is no reason to report to any QA manager. The reason is that they felt so insecure because they don't have anything to do apart from micromanagement or internal politics.
Cons: 10,000 cons if you join as QA. The sad part is if you report to the QA manager.

Great Place, Too Relaxed

Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Great place. Good culture. Nice workmate relationship.

Cons: Too relaxed, less stress, etc., etc., etc.

4.0
Great Place, Too Relaxed
Senior Software QA Engineer • Former Employee
San Jose, California, United States
March 4, 2016
Pros: Great place. Good culture. Nice workmate relationship.
Cons: Too relaxed, less stress, etc., etc., etc.

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?

ArraysDynamic 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.

Linked ListsDynamic Programming

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