Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at eBay with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 46% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 200 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 according to 200 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 4%
Background check: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at eBay (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2013
Interview
Refered by a friend, first two phone interviews, then onsite in CA. Overall the experience was great, hiring manager is nice, interviewers are all nice too.
Had a very bad time with the recruiter at the end. I had to bargain with him very hard to get a small salary increase(he worked for a small comapny for a long time and was really thinking cheap), and he directly refused to match my other offer without even talking to hiring manager. I was 100% sure that the hiring manager would try to match since I know I gave him a good impression, and he knows my excellent friend who refered me. But the recruiter screwed up everything and I had to accept another offer due to deadline. After I signed the other offer, the recuriter called and wanted to give me a higher number...
The interview process started with a 30-minute recruiter screening, which focused on my background, experience, and interest in the role. The recruiter also provided an overview of the team and position.
The next round was a 1-hour technical interview. I was asked to design and implement a Spring Boot application for an e-commerce website. The discussion covered REST API design, entity modeling, service and repository layers, application architecture, and coding best practices. The interviewer also asked follow-up questions about scalability, error handling, and design decisions made during the implementation.
Overall, the interview was technical and practical, focusing on real-world backend development skills using Spring Boot.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a Spring Boot application for an e-commerce website.
The process starts with a call screening with HR, then 2 rounds of code screenings, followed by system design interview, and finally behavioural interview with hiring manager. The process took 1 month
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code medium question and follow up questions about data structure
There were five rounds in the process: an initial recruiter call, a first manager call, followed by three technical rounds in a loop.
In the first round, they assessed whether my background aligned with the role requirements. During the manager call, I was expecting a coding round, but instead, they asked three situational questions. After that, I received a rejection.