Current Position:
SDE I at a FAANG company(3.6 years experience including internship)

Offered Position:
SWE III at eBay

Interview Process:
Total: 4 Technical Rounds + 1 Director Round
Coding Platform: CodeSignal

1st Technical Round:

• Deep dive into past projects
• Drew system architecture diagrams and explained design decisions of projects I worked on
• Coding question: 3-Sum

2nd Technical Round:

• Pure problem-solving round
• 2 questions were asked
• Since time was left, I was asked for an additional question as well

3rd Technical Round:

• More problem solving
• Implemented a TinyURL system
• Follow-up questions: Why I chose Base64, corner cases, scalability and future improvements

4th Technical Round:

• Project-focused discussion
• Behavioral questions like why I’m leaving my current company
• Coding question: N-Queens

5th Round (Director):

• Conversational and interest-based
• Interviewer was passionate about OS, so most questions were OS-centric
• Discussion on why DSA is my favorite subject
• A few situational and behavioral questions

Verdict:
By God’s grace — SELECTED! 🎉