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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

April 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online.

Received a call from HR two weeks later.

One week after that, I had a one-hour Skype technical interview. I was asked about tree implementation and an array question.

One week later, I received an email from the recruiter to schedule an onsite interview.

Two weeks later, the onsite interview was scheduled. It consisted of six back-to-back, 45-minute interview rounds.

Overall, the process was nice. I didn't do well in one of the interviews.

Questions

1st Round:

  • How to uniquely identify repeating strings from an array.
  • How to search in a Skip List.

2nd Round:

  • Binary Search
  • How to write a Customized Comparator
  • Anagrams

3rd Round:

Lunch with tech manager and find the maximum subarray.

4th Round:

  • Binary Search in a sorted matrix
  • Different ways of writing the Singleton pattern
  • Resume walkthrough

5th Round:

  • How HashMap works
  • Get the sum using the minimum combination of numbers provided.

6th Round:

  • Singleton
  • Tree traversal
  • How to mirror the tree
  • Stack implementation
  • Queue using a stack
  • Reverse the sentence

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 37 interview experiences for the eBay Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

11%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive41%
Neutral22%
Negative38%

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

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