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E-commerceProduct company

eBay

Runs an online marketplace where individuals and businesses buy and sell new and used goods, from collectibles to car parts.

Not known5 stage process documentedFounded 1995
Headquarters

San Jose, California, United States

Headcount

5,000 and up

5,000 or more people
Work model

Not known

Hiring

Not known

Not enough signal to say. Check the careers page directly.
Where to apply
Careers pageWebsite

Ask for a referral to eBay

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
  • Nothing you send here is shared with anyone without you agreeing to it first.

If you found the opening, paste it. It tells me which team you mean.

A Drive, Dropbox or personal-site link is fine. Make sure it opens without a request for access, or I cannot read it.

At least a short paragraph. This is what I would be putting my name behind, so specifics beat adjectives.

Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

How they hire

The loop varies by level, location and team. Candidate accounts put it at two to six weeks, with the online assessment and repository based screen not used for every role.

  1. 1

    Recruiter screen

    Reported
    Recruiter screenRemote

    A short call on background, experience and interest in the role.

  2. 2

    Online coding assessment

    Unverified
    Online testRemote

    Some candidates receive a CodeSignal test with four questions of increasing difficulty.

    Coding
  3. 3

    Practical technical screen

    Unverified
    Live codingRemote

    Live coding inside an existing repository, debugging failing code and getting tests to pass.

    DebuggingTesting
  4. 4

    Interview loop with coding and system design

    Reported
    Panel interview

    Several technical rounds, mostly medium difficulty coding problems plus a system design round.

    CodingSystem design
  5. 5

    Hiring manager and behavioural round

    Unverified +1
    Hiring manager

    Culture fit, conflict resolution and technical trade-offs.

What comes up

Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.

  • Medium difficulty algorithms

    Unverified +1

    Coding rounds are mostly medium difficulty, with graphs, trees, arrays and strings commonly reported.

  • Marketplace system design

    Unverified +1

    Ecommerce scenarios such as file storage or flash sales, and scaling search and real time data.

  • Low level design

    Unverified

    Designing classes for components such as rate limiters or notification services.

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  • Job search
  • DSA
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Grokking 75: Top Coding Interview Questions

A course built around 75 coding interview questions chosen for coverage across 18 topic areas, from arrays and sliding window to graphs, backtracking, dynamic programming and tries. Each question has a step-by-step algorithm, a walkthrough and complexity analysis, with solutions in six languages. It suits candidates with a few weeks before an interview who need a balanced, finite problem set rather than an endless list.

  • Job search
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Design Gurus · Interview Prep · 3 to 4 weeks · Intermediate
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System Design Interview Playbook

A learning path that bundles five courses into one sequence for system design preparation: System Design Fundamentals, Grokking the System Design Interview, Advanced System Design Interview Volume II, Grokking Microservices Design Patterns and Grokking Design Patterns for Engineers and Managers. Together they add up to 76 chapters and 666 lessons. It suits engineers who want a complete, ordered curriculum instead of assembling one from scattered posts.

  • System design
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  • Career
Design Gurus · System Design · 2 to 4 months
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Grokking Tech Salary Negotiations

A practical course on negotiating compensation in tech, from preparing and building a strategy to specific tactics, the full package beyond base salary, handling multiple offers and asking for a raise. It has tailored sections for fresh graduates and experienced engineers. It suits anyone with an offer coming, and anyone who has ever accepted the first number out of discomfort.

  • Career
  • Job search
Design Gurus · Career Growth · 1 week
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Video
Gaurav Sen: System Design

Gaurav Sen's YouTube channel, one of the first to make system design approachable, with whiteboard-style walkthroughs of scaling, sharding, consistent hashing, message queues, rate limiting and classic interview designs. He reasons through problems on camera, including discarded first ideas, rather than presenting a finished answer. The channel has about 758k subscribers. It is a good free starting point for system design before committing money to a course.

  • System design
  • Job search
Gaurav Sen · System Design · Ongoing · Intermediate
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Community
ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest)

The official site of the ICPC, the university programming contest where teams of three share one computer for five hours and advance from regional contests towards the World Finals. It is where coaches register teams, where the current regional and World Finals rules are published, and where you find contests, results and past problems.

  • DSA
  • CS fundamentals
ICPC Foundation · Other · A season of qualifying contests each academic year
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What it pays

Nothing collected for this company yet, and nothing worth guessing at. A made-up range is worse than no range because people negotiate against it.

Add to the eBay page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

Universities they recruit from

No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.

Add to the eBay page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

How to actually get seen

Practise working in an unfamiliar codebase, reading tests and fixing failures, as well as solving standalone problems.

Sources

Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.

Interviewed at eBay? Fill in what changed.

Processes change, rounds get added, tests get replaced. If what you went through was different from what is on this page, tell me and I will update it.

Want me to refer you here?

Send me the role, your CV and a few honest paragraphs on why you fit it. Where I know someone inside and your profile matches, I will make the introduction. Where I cannot, I will tell you why and point you at the route that does work. You get an answer either way.

Ask for a referral to eBay

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
  • Nothing you send here is shared with anyone without you agreeing to it first.

If you found the opening, paste it. It tells me which team you mean.

A Drive, Dropbox or personal-site link is fine. Make sure it opens without a request for access, or I cannot read it.

At least a short paragraph. This is what I would be putting my name behind, so specifics beat adjectives.

Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Add to the eBay page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

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