I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at eBay (Sacramento, CA) in May 2012
Interview
I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter after 10 days. The recruiter told me that there would be two rounds each of 2 hours. The first round was all about Java (eBay is primarily a Java shop). I was asked to write a Enqueue and Dequeue using linked lists. Then they asked me to resolve an issue when dequeue is called first and there is nothing in the queue (they were checking if I can resolve a deadlock issue using threads). There were many other questions on OOP,abstract classes, interfaces, serializability and stuff. I was thru to the next round and was interviewed again on Skype in the following week. Questions were on some puzzles, linkedlists, trees etc.
Interview questions [2]
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Write a enqueue and dequeue using linked lists, resolve deadlock on it etc
Online Assessment with 4 questions for pre-screening. Used CodeSignal, it took some time to match the setup they wanted. 70 minutes for one very easy question, two intermediate difficulty and one hard question.
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Question 1
Hard one asked to parse the input string and return how many times a user was mentioned on a chat system where the user could mention all, specific user, go inactive for certain amount of time.
2 rounds back to back First round by a manager, second round by an engineer. A little weird since the manager interviewer asked me a few question not strongly related to software engineering.
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Question 1
Some questions regarding how to balance quality, reputation, and price when purchasing machines. Data validation and filtering.
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.