eBay

Software Engineer University Graduates Interview Experience

April 1, 2022

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online and received an email a few days later inviting me to a CodeSignal coding interview. The interview was proctored and contained 4 coding questions to be answered within a span of 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Questions

Two string-related questions:

One was.

Repeated String Match - Medium Difficulty

Given a question on matrices.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the eBay Software Engineer University Graduates role in United States.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

eBay's interview process for their Software Engineer University Graduates roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for eBay's Software Engineer University Graduates interview process in United States.

eBay Work Experiences

Good Culture, Few Challenges

Senior Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Strong flexibility, quick decisions, competitive salary, and nice colleagues, which means a very good company culture.

Cons: Not too many challenges. Many years to get a promotion.

Good Culture, Few Challenges

Senior Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Strong flexibility, quick decisions, competitive salary, and nice colleagues, which means a very good company culture.

Cons: Not too many challenges. Many years to get a promotion.

Too many levels of management promotes politics

Software Engineer II • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Interesting projects, exposure to real-world heavy traffic, a few smart people to work with, good work-life balance, and resources available to learn new things.

Cons: Too many levels of management, full of people who please managers and get promotions instead of doing work. They are afraid to make drastic changes or introduce game-changers due to the size of traffic and the possible impact.

Too many levels of management promotes politics

Software Engineer II • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Interesting projects, exposure to real-world heavy traffic, a few smart people to work with, good work-life balance, and resources available to learn new things.

Cons: Too many levels of management, full of people who please managers and get promotions instead of doing work. They are afraid to make drastic changes or introduce game-changers due to the size of traffic and the possible impact.

Just an OK job in San Jose

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

December 18, 2020

Pros: Challenging environment about empowering folks for commerce.

Cons: Politics. Difficult to really innovate outside the bubble.

Just an OK job in San Jose

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

December 18, 2020

Pros: Challenging environment about empowering folks for commerce.

Cons: Politics. Difficult to really innovate outside the bubble.

Good Culture, Few Challenges

Senior Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Strong flexibility, quick decisions, competitive salary, and nice colleagues, which means a very good company culture.

Cons: Not too many challenges. Many years to get a promotion.

4.0
Good Culture, Few Challenges
Senior Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
July 8, 2019
Pros: Strong flexibility, quick decisions, competitive salary, and nice colleagues, which means a very good company culture.
Cons: Not too many challenges. Many years to get a promotion.

Too many levels of management promotes politics

Software Engineer II • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Interesting projects, exposure to real-world heavy traffic, a few smart people to work with, good work-life balance, and resources available to learn new things.

Cons: Too many levels of management, full of people who please managers and get promotions instead of doing work. They are afraid to make drastic changes or introduce game-changers due to the size of traffic and the possible impact.

3.0
Too many levels of management promotes politics
Software Engineer II • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
April 19, 2014
Pros: Interesting projects, exposure to real-world heavy traffic, a few smart people to work with, good work-life balance, and resources available to learn new things.
Cons: Too many levels of management, full of people who please managers and get promotions instead of doing work. They are afraid to make drastic changes or introduce game-changers due to the size of traffic and the possible impact.

Just an OK job in San Jose

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

December 18, 2020

Pros: Challenging environment about empowering folks for commerce.

Cons: Politics. Difficult to really innovate outside the bubble.

4.0
Just an OK job in San Jose
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
December 18, 2020
Pros: Challenging environment about empowering folks for commerce.
Cons: Politics. Difficult to really innovate outside the bubble.

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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