eBay Interview Questions and Guide

Real-time bidding engines, distributed locking and concurrency, elastic search indexing, and resilient order management.

The eBay interview loop

1. Recruiter screen
2. Online assessment / phone screen
3. Onsite: 2 coding rounds, 1 distributed systems design (auctions / search), 1 behavioral

eBay interview questions

• Design Search Autocomplete
• Design an Online Auction
• Design an Online Bookstore
• Design a Flash Sale System
• Design a Price Tracker
• Valid Palindrome II
• Spiral Matrix II
• Substring with Concatenation of All Words
• Reverse Pairs
• Shortest Unsorted Continuous Subarray
• Decode String
• Nearest Exit from Entrance in Maze
• Top K Frequent Elements
• Median of Two Sorted Arrays
• Merge Overlapping Intervals
• Design a Discount and Coupon Engine
• Design an Online Auction
• Why do you want to work here?
• What is a weakness you're working on?
• Tell me about a time you made the case for paying down tech debt