eBay

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - San Jose, California

January 1, 2018

Neutral ExperienceGot Offer

Process

I submitted my resume at a job fair and was called onsite within a week. The interview was with technical leads. They asked basic questions and explained the teams they were working on.

Questions

Easy from LeetCode.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the eBay Software Engineer (Internship) role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

25%

Pass Rate

eBay's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in San Jose, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for eBay's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in San Jose, California.

eBay Work Experiences

Challenging Projects, Approachable Managers

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

October 4, 2013

Pros: Managers are generally very approachable. Great teamwork. Managers even code a lot; they can directly help people to grow a lot. They encourage innovations and open-source adoptions. Really large-scale and challenging and interesting problems and projects.

Cons: Some teams are pretty busy. Goals are very aggressive. Work-life balance is OK. Some projects should use simpler solutions. Employee levels are not bad, but there's a really big gap compared to Facebook/Google.

Challenging Projects, Approachable Managers

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

October 4, 2013

Pros: Managers are generally very approachable. Great teamwork. Managers even code a lot; they can directly help people to grow a lot. They encourage innovations and open-source adoptions. Really large-scale and challenging and interesting problems and projects.

Cons: Some teams are pretty busy. Goals are very aggressive. Work-life balance is OK. Some projects should use simpler solutions. Employee levels are not bad, but there's a really big gap compared to Facebook/Google.

Great place to work

Software Quality Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Nice place to work, very good engineers. Good work-life balance.

Cons: Absolutely no cons, very nice place to work.

Great place to work

Software Quality Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Nice place to work, very good engineers. Good work-life balance.

Cons: Absolutely no cons, very nice place to work.

Roller Coaster Ride

Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Good salary, benefits, and generous stock options.

Cons: Every 6 months, you have no idea if your organization is going to be shuttered because the stock price has dipped, and therefore all of those stock options never mature.

Roller Coaster Ride

Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Good salary, benefits, and generous stock options.

Cons: Every 6 months, you have no idea if your organization is going to be shuttered because the stock price has dipped, and therefore all of those stock options never mature.

Challenging Projects, Approachable Managers

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

October 4, 2013

Pros: Managers are generally very approachable. Great teamwork. Managers even code a lot; they can directly help people to grow a lot. They encourage innovations and open-source adoptions. Really large-scale and challenging and interesting problems and projects.

Cons: Some teams are pretty busy. Goals are very aggressive. Work-life balance is OK. Some projects should use simpler solutions. Employee levels are not bad, but there's a really big gap compared to Facebook/Google.

5.0
Challenging Projects, Approachable Managers
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
October 4, 2013
Pros: Managers are generally very approachable. Great teamwork. Managers even code a lot; they can directly help people to grow a lot. They encourage innovations and open-source adoptions. Really large-scale and challenging and interesting problems and projects.
Cons: Some teams are pretty busy. Goals are very aggressive. Work-life balance is OK. Some projects should use simpler solutions. Employee levels are not bad, but there's a really big gap compared to Facebook/Google.

Great place to work

Software Quality Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Nice place to work, very good engineers. Good work-life balance.

Cons: Absolutely no cons, very nice place to work.

5.0
Great place to work
Software Quality Engineer • Former Employee
San Jose, California, United States
March 5, 2024
Pros: Nice place to work, very good engineers. Good work-life balance.
Cons: Absolutely no cons, very nice place to work.

Roller Coaster Ride

Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Good salary, benefits, and generous stock options.

Cons: Every 6 months, you have no idea if your organization is going to be shuttered because the stock price has dipped, and therefore all of those stock options never mature.

3.0
Roller Coaster Ride
Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
July 9, 2018
Pros: Good salary, benefits, and generous stock options.
Cons: Every 6 months, you have no idea if your organization is going to be shuttered because the stock price has dipped, and therefore all of those stock options never mature.

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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