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eBay revolutionized the way that people buy and sell goods. As one of the world’s leading online retailers with over 170K active users, eBay as high expectations of its engineering team. eBay wants to hire highly-skilled engineers, and this is reflected in their interview process.

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Practice Questions for the eBay Interview

eBay’s interview process is tough, but our strategic approach to interview preparation will make sure that you’re ready for any question they throw your way.

Word Cloud Data »

You're building a word cloud. Write a function to figure out how many times each word appears so we know how big to make each word in the cloud. keep reading »

Two Egg Problem »

A building has 100 floors. Figure out the highest floor an egg can be dropped from without breaking. keep reading »

Compute the nth Fibonacci Number »

Computer the nth Fibonacci number. Careful--the recursion can quickly spin out of control! keep reading »

The Stolen Breakfast Drone »

In a beautiful Amazon utopia where breakfast is delivered by drones, one drone has gone missing. Write a function to figure out which one is missing. keep reading »

The Cake Thief »

You've hit the mother lode: the cake vault of the Queen of England. Figure out how much of each cake to carry out to maximize profit. keep reading »

Permutation Palindrome »

Check if any permutation of an input string is a palindrome. keep reading »

Parenthesis Matching »

Write a function that finds the corresponding closing parenthesis given the position of an opening parenthesis in a string. keep reading »

Recursive String Permutations »

Write a recursive function of generating all permutations of an input string. keep reading »

Find Repeat, Space Edition »

Figure out which number is repeated. But here's the catch: optimize for space. keep reading »

Find Repeat, Space Edition BEAST MODE »

Figure out which number is repeated. But here's the catch: do it in linear time and constant space! keep reading »

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What people are saying about eBay's interview

Check out some of the positive highlights that others have written about their eBay interview experience on Glassdoor:

  • ”Things moved very quickly. Questions are a combo of high level architecture/design & algorithms. Overall nothing leetcode hard/brainteasers. The onsite includes coding up a project and presenting it to the team.”
  • ”Process took one week. The interview was not to hard, very doable if you can think under pressure. They were very friendly and willing to help if stuck. Overall a good interview.”

And here are some of the negative experiences interviewees have reported to Glassdoor:

  • ”The eBay recruiter reached out to me and set up the interview process. I cleared the telephonic interview and then I was invited for the onsite interview. They asked questions from Java, CSS, HTML, Product Design, Javascript, Algorithms, Puzzles. I was told that the decision will be made in a week by the hiring manager very clearly. I waited for more than a week and reached out to the recruiter after Ii did not hear anything from eBay. The recruiter kept saying that the decision has not been made and that they are still interviewing. This continued for more than a month.”
  • ”The phone interview was very fast paced loaded with questions. The phone interviewer was nice though. After that, got a Skype interview with 5 people. All of them were great except one. That one was not prepared for the interview at all, he asked a question that was too difficult. So, when I couldn't answer, I asked him to answer it himself. The funny thing is that he couldn’t answer his own question.”
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