Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at eBay with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 3 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at eBay overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at eBay as a Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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Everything goes well. You can give it a try. No problem! It’s pretty straightforward. Hope everything goes well. You need to be well prepared. You need to communicate very clearly.
I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at eBay (Dublin, Dublin) in May 2025
Interview
The Hiring Manager approached me on LinkedIn and showed interest in my profile. He shared good things about his team, and I agreed to an interview since it aligned with my interests.
Had a technical round with a guy. He asked a medium LC question of recursion. The solution is not as lengthy as it is the case with the recursion problem.
I first discussed the problem with non-optimized solutions, and he asked about the memory and time costs that I explained, and he asked to improve, which I did iteratively first for time and memory. Wrote the straightforward code. Not much discussion on it.
He jumped on my current projects and experience. Asking some counter questions, and that's it.
The recruiter ghosted me. I knew I hadn't passed, but I wanted to have the feedback. After a couple of emails and weeks, the recruiter contacted me. The feedback was lame.
* My approach to the problem requires nudges from the interviewer and is not perfect the first time.
* The code was not up to the mark. The simple recursion code, on which he didn't discuss anything it was OK.
* My experience was not up to the mark of their requirements. My QPS doesn't match their system. Can ask the same earlier in the exploratory call and have not wasted the time.
I am happy that I didn't go through.
It is not a small company and should invest in training people for interviews.
At first is HR call about 20mins, and then you will have a technical interview, start with several simple questions and then is coding which is about typical leetcode questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's your proud project and what challenge do you have ?