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      Software Engineer Intern Interview

      17 May 2012
      Anonymous employee
      San Jose, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at eBay (San Jose, CA) in May 2012

      Interview

      After submitting my resume, a hiring manager quickly got into contact with me. She scheduled two interviews, one with a manager, the second with another software engineer. Questions asked were Java based. The manager interview was mostly focused on the Map interface in the Collections framework, and different algorithms that could be implemented using a Map. Other questions were based around simple algorithms to encode and decode a list of strings(merely concatenating the strings was sufficient for encoding, nothing special). The second interview was focused on inheritance, and conditional statements. The questions, although code based, seemed to lean more towards algorithms vs coding knowledge and ability(that is not to say that some emphasis was put on good coding practices). I was almost immediately called by the hiring manager upon completing my second interview informing me that I was being made an offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Assuming a preexisting list of 100 words, how would you efficiently see if a word received from input is an anagram of any of the 100 words?
      4 Answers
      5

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      Software Engineer Intern Interview

      11 Nov 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

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      Anonymous interview candidate
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      No offer
      Positive experience
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      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at eBay (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2024

      Interview

      Got invited to SWE Internship Power day. It had 2 back to back interviews. Questions were on random things. They asked Leetcode easy/medium questions and also Linked list questions. I used C++ for this.

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      18 Jul 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at eBay

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