eBay Frontend Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at eBay.
eBay
Front End Engineer
Mid Average Neutral experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding
The interview process was pretty straightforward. No screening call, we just scheduled a first technical interview. It was probably one of the most uncomfortable interviews I've ever had. I don't want to say anything bad about the interviewer, but I asked twice "is he there" during the interview, because despite my attempts to maintain some kind of dialogue while I was implementing the functionality, the interviewer simply remained silent. On the other hand, there were no "flood" questions. He said his name, I said my name, and he immediately suggested moving on to the task.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Implement a simple UI component using vanilla.js or React.js.
eBay
Front End Engineer
Senior Average Positive experience No offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite Background check Offer
Interview formats
Coding Technical System Design Behavioral
I applied through the eBay careers section in April 2020, and the whole thing took about 3 weeks. A recruiter got in touch and set up the first interview, which was a video call. They asked me to solve one front end question and one problem-solving question. After passing that, they scheduled the final interviews, which were virtual because of COVID-19. It was a total of 5 rounds. The first was a design round where I had to design a restaurant and a parking lot using object-oriented principles. Then came a front-end specific round focusing on HTML, CSS, and responsive design skills. The third round was with a manager, covering situational and behavioral questions and a chat about my current projects. The fourth round was problem-solving, involving building a binary tree from an array and doing an inorder traversal. The last round was a real-time coding challenge where I had to recreate the eBay cart page using ReactJS, given an image.
Confirmed questions5 questions
- How would you arrange blocks on a page to display 4 on large screens, 3 on medium, 2 on small, and 1 on XS screens, and how could you achieve this using flexbox?
- Given an array of elements, find all sets of three elements (triplets) that sum up to 0.
- Object-oriented design for a restaurant and a parking lot, including their entity relationships.
eBay
Front End Developer
Senior Easy Negative experience Decline offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Phone screen
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
eBay reached out about a full stack engineering role with a cool tech stack. They said it was just one exercise and one interview. I did the exercise, which was straightforward, but then in the interview, they completely changed the requirements from a React Sr. + Node Sr. full stack role to maintaining an old HTML site with pre-ES6 JS, front-end only. It felt like a bait and switch, wasting everyone's time. They also rescheduled the interview twice and messed up the invites. The interview itself was rough, asking basic HTML questions to someone with 10+ years of experience who had already done the technical exercise.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Can you answer some simple HTML markup questions?
- Do you know standard CSS questions?
- Can you answer some JS questions?
eBay Frontend Engineer Interview Questions
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“Given an array of elements, find all sets of three elements (triplets) that sum up to 0.”
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Read report →“Implement a simple UI component using vanilla.js or React.js.”
Read report →“Can you build a Javascript tab component?”
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