Software Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at eBay with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 85% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Intern roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 22 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at eBay overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at eBay as a Software Engineer Intern according to 22 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 45%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 12%
Background check: 9%
Personality test: 6%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 3%
Presentation: 3%
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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]
Question 1
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.
Interview questions [1]
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.
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.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some questions regarding how to balance quality, reputation, and price when purchasing machines. Data validation and filtering.