eBay

Software Engineer New Grad Interview Experience

November 1, 2021

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

One offer and four verbal offers in one day. From the Payments team. Interviewers are nice. Questions are medium LeetCode questions. Most of them are BFS, DFS, or counting sort questions. There are also a few behavioral questions, like how would you handle conflict...

Questions

DFS, BFS, Counting Sort, behavior questions...

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the eBay Software Engineer New Grad role in United States.

Success Rate

25%

Pass Rate

eBay's interview process for their Software Engineer New Grad roles in the United States is very selective, failing most 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 United States.

eBay Work Experiences

It was great; some of the management lets everything down

Software Engineer • Former Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Great people, wonderful atmosphere, and fantastic benefits in London.

Cons: Poor management, sometimes condescending, who believe they know better than engineers "on the floor". This "features over quality, do what I say" attitude seems to have pervaded into what was once a dynamic, agile eBay subculture in London. Unfortunately, this attitude will not improve anything; legacy code needs time and care. Despite the company touting that we should "deliver with impact", if you step out of line with delivery timelines or feature stack, you will be penalized for doing so.

It was great; some of the management lets everything down

Software Engineer • Former Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Great people, wonderful atmosphere, and fantastic benefits in London.

Cons: Poor management, sometimes condescending, who believe they know better than engineers "on the floor". This "features over quality, do what I say" attitude seems to have pervaded into what was once a dynamic, agile eBay subculture in London. Unfortunately, this attitude will not improve anything; legacy code needs time and care. Despite the company touting that we should "deliver with impact", if you step out of line with delivery timelines or feature stack, you will be penalized for doing so.

Usual for a big corporation

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Stability, work-life balance, good benefits (401K, medical, etc.).

Cons: Some obsolete technologies, a slow pace of change, and it's harder to make an impact.

Usual for a big corporation

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Stability, work-life balance, good benefits (401K, medical, etc.).

Cons: Some obsolete technologies, a slow pace of change, and it's harder to make an impact.

Best place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Topmost benefits in the industry and work-life balance.

Cons: Stock doesn't go up that high.

Best place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Topmost benefits in the industry and work-life balance.

Cons: Stock doesn't go up that high.

It was great; some of the management lets everything down

Software Engineer • Former Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Great people, wonderful atmosphere, and fantastic benefits in London.

Cons: Poor management, sometimes condescending, who believe they know better than engineers "on the floor". This "features over quality, do what I say" attitude seems to have pervaded into what was once a dynamic, agile eBay subculture in London. Unfortunately, this attitude will not improve anything; legacy code needs time and care. Despite the company touting that we should "deliver with impact", if you step out of line with delivery timelines or feature stack, you will be penalized for doing so.

2.0
It was great; some of the management lets everything down
Software Engineer • Former Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
March 25, 2022
Pros: Great people, wonderful atmosphere, and fantastic benefits in London.
Cons: Poor management, sometimes condescending, who believe they know better than engineers "on the floor". This "features over quality, do what I say" attitude seems to have pervaded into what was once a dynamic, agile eBay subculture in London. Unfortunately, this attitude will not improve anything; legacy code needs time and care. Despite the company touting that we should "deliver with impact", if you step out of line with delivery timelines or feature stack, you will be penalized for doing so.

Usual for a big corporation

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Stability, work-life balance, good benefits (401K, medical, etc.).

Cons: Some obsolete technologies, a slow pace of change, and it's harder to make an impact.

4.0
Usual for a big corporation
Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Jose, California, United States
August 9, 2024
Pros: Stability, work-life balance, good benefits (401K, medical, etc.).
Cons: Some obsolete technologies, a slow pace of change, and it's harder to make an impact.

Best place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Topmost benefits in the industry and work-life balance.

Cons: Stock doesn't go up that high.

5.0
Best place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
April 28, 2021
Pros: Topmost benefits in the industry and work-life balance.
Cons: Stock doesn't go up that high.

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?

Dynamic 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.

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