I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at eBay (Bengaluru) in Apr 2016
Interview
The recruiter called me to have a chat and fixed a Skype call with the hiring manager on a particular date and time. A day before the scheduled Skype call, I was called by another recruiter to fix a face-to-face interview the following week. I waited for the Skype call as scheduled, but got no call at all. There were frantic emails from another recruiter asking if I am on call and things like that. After that nothing happened at all. I proceeded to the face to face interview the following week. That did happen as scheduled without any reference to why the Skype call never happened. The interviewer's only main questions were around Scrum and arguing why the Scrum that eBay followed was "perfect" (I am an Agile practitioner for several years and hence my answers could not have been lame). It could not have got any more shallower than that for an interview for something as strategic as Product Manager.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
What is the difference between Scrum Master and Product Owner?
I had 6 interviews including 4 case studies:
1. Met with HR
2. Met with Hiring Manager (45 mins), he shared his screen and asked me case study questions.
3. case study with Hiring Manager and 2 other Managers (45 mins). It was standard case study questions but it was very uncomfortable and it felt like they were disengaged and uninterested from the beginning.
4. interview with a Tech Manager (45 mins).
5. 1 hour interview with the Manager leading the Product team, I wasn't warned that she would put me on the spot and again ask more case study questions. She shared her screen and asked questions about a case. I really didn't expect this.
6. Another 1 hour interview with the newly hired Senior Director. She did more case studies and put me on the spot to do mathematical calculations. I got every question correct.
After all these interviews, HR sent me a 1-line email saying that they weren't going to move forward with me. Throughout the last couple interviews they really led me to believe I'd be getting the offer.
I spent almost 5 hours interviewing with them, just to get a 1-line rejection.
Overall the tone was just very uncomfortable. The case study questions didn't feel fair since we only have limited exposure into the world of ebay and how they operate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sample Case Study questions:
1. How would you improve this email?
2. Calculate the Conversion rate.
3. What would you say is the problem with this mobile PN?
I did 6 interviews & 4 case studies only to get rejected with a 1-line email saying it's not a good fit. In the final interview, the interviewer put me on the spot and made me do math problems, which is difficult in an interview-setting when someone's watching you. The whole process was just really uncomfortable and stressful. They gave no real feedback or reasoning for why I was rejected.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at eBay
Interview
first round was virtual.
one consultancy firm reached out to me for the job. 2 months later, a recruiter reached out to me and scheduled the interview. role was located in bangalore
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Describe an impactful problem you solved in your previous company
2. How will you increase AOV at amazon
3. You work at Zepto. You have lost a lot of customers in the past 6 weeks to Blinkit becuase blinkit is offerring very low prices. You are asked to not get into a price war with blinkit but win back the customers you lost. How would you go about this?