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Software Engineer, Backend Interview Experience - San Jose, California

May 1, 2020
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I interviewed for eBay in May 2020. First, there was a phone screening with a junior engineer on the team. After that, I scheduled a virtual, five-round Coderpad interview. There was just a half-hour break in between.

The interview was of average difficulty, and the questions focused on Java, data structures, and threads in particular.

I did not like that the manager had shortlisted my resume and then, during the interview, after looking at it, said my experience didn't align with the job. I was shocked. Thank you for wasting my time!

Questions

  1. Trees and DP in phone screening.

  2. Stacks, linked lists, DP, binary search, and questions on Java (Immutable class, Threads, difference between equals() and hashCode()).

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the eBay Software Engineer, Backend role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

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

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for eBay's Software Engineer, Backend interview process in San Jose, California.

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