I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at eBay (San Jose, CA) in Feb 2017
Interview
The recruiter contacted me with the job, had a quick call with the recruiter to understand my background.
Phone screen - which was purely technical - questions around CSS specificity and to create a progress bar with multiple colors.
Got a call for the onsite interview at their San Jose office - HAD THE WORST EXPERIENCE EVER!!.
There were 5 guys to interview me.
1) Someone from the same team I was interviewing for - very knowledgeable and purely 100% technical and whiteboard coding.Very good experience
2) A senior guy from a different team - tested on design principles and basic good practices.
3)Manager for the team I was interviewing - took me out for lunch, but was not engaging and seemed to me that he was least interested to know me.I was talking to him all the time
4)A senior guy who gave me a question and was in his own world sending emails or doing something - least interested in knowing what I did.
5) The last person also who was very senior - it was 100% coding on the white board, we had an open discussion about various SPA architecture. He was very knowledgeable and had a great experience.
6) I got an automated rejection email while I was interviewing with the last person - THAT WAS CRAZY!!
I applied online. I interviewed at eBay (San Jose, CA) in Jun 2021
Interview
They don't train their interviewers or recruiters with any people skills. They are rude and difficult to work with. I just wanted to stop the interview in the first 15 minutes. Most of the questions the interviewer asked could have been found in the Mozilla docs but he wanted me to answer it from memory.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at eBay (Austin, TX) in Apr 2020
Interview
I have been interview during April 2020 and the process took 3 weeks
I applied through ebay careers section, recruiter has reached out to me and scheduled the first round of interview, which is a video round. They asked me to solve one front end related question and one problem solving question(mentioned below).
After I cleared the first round of interview they have scheduled the virtual final round becasue of this COVID-19 situation.
It was 5 rounds and first round was a design round where they asked me to design a restaurant and then a parking lot in an Object oriented way.
Second round is a front end specific round, where they tested my HTML, CSS skills and also my responsive design skills.
Third round was with a manager, which is more about situational and behavioral questions along with some discussion on my current working project.
Fourth round is a problem solving round and the interviewer asked me to build a binary tree based on the given input array and then output the nodes in an inorder.
Fifth round is a real time coding skills where they have provided me an image of ebay cart page and asked me to build the page using Reactjs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Arrange blocks in a page where it should show 4 blocks on large screen and 3 on medium screen and 2 on small screen and 1 on XS screen.(I used media queries). They also asked me how can we do it using flex box.
2. Given a array of elements where they asked me to print all the triplets where the sum of those triplets should be equal to 0.
3. Design a restaurant and parking lot in an Object oriented way with all the entity relationships
4. Binary tree traversal
5. Design ebay cart page using react.
