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Software Engineer New Grad Interview Experience - San Jose, California

October 1, 2018
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Round 1 - Phone:

A complete headache from the recruiting process. It took weeks to communicate and set up phone interviews. I asked if it was possible to reschedule my interview and, although I clearly stated that I would be fine with the original time if rescheduling was impossible, I was simply sent an automated rejection email before I even interviewed. I found this disrespectful. I ended up calling the recruiter to set up the phone interview, which I passed.

The interview itself: Two easy coding problems on the online shared editor. One was on palindromes.

Round 2 - Onsite:

I found their process extremely inefficient and disrespectful. I was invited to a university interview day in which, basically, around 100 interviewers rotated around the cafeteria for a total of 4 (I can't remember) interviews. It looked and felt like speed dating, but worse. It was loud; I was writing on printer paper and sometimes found it difficult to focus. The coding questions asked were very easy, but the interviewers were not helpful and seemed to get easily distracted as well. I was disappointed because the environment did not allow me to perform to my best, as I was not aware this was going to be the setup. I had, and since have never been in, an interview process in which I am not in a quiet room as the sole candidate. Plus, there were loud talks about diversity, but all of my interviewers were middle-aged Indian men.

Questions

Fibonacci, other easy-medium problems

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Interview Statistics

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

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

eBay's interview process for their Software Engineer New Grad 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 Software Engineer New Grad interview process in San Jose, California.

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