I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at eBay in Apr 2014
Interview
Contacted initially by a recruiter, then set up two phone interviews. They're all pretty quick and professional. You give your preferences for phone interview dates/times and they schedule appropriately. The interviewers seemed pretty helpful too. So, first they ask you to tell them your approach to solve a problem and then ask you to code. And they do provide helpful hints along the way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone Interview 1:
(1)Find maximum height of BST. This is easy using recursion. Then he asked me to do it iteratively, which I somehow managed to solve.
(2)The Dutch flag problem. This was not tough. But the next question was tough. It was about finding particular keys in a dictionary. They have a custom function that tells you if a key is in the dictionary and you to find out if for given input, you get required output. For example --
The dictionary is like:
{hi,hello,sir,how, are, you}
And you have a function isWord(x) that tells you if a particular word is in that dictinary.
So if the input is hisirhowareyou
the output must be hi sir how are you
I couldn't solve this problem. :(
Very talented and knowledgable interviewers. Had a great time speaking with them. They were very polite and kind.Questions were deep dive into my experience and tech know-how. There were times where I was stuck, but they made me feel easy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about OOPs and polymorphism plus functional programming in scala
Applied through referral, Got an email back from recruiter asking for availability. Initial round was screening and I heard there are total four on-site rounds after screening round (1 system design and 3 LC medium coding rounds)
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at eBay (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2022
Interview
I described myself in the beginning, then I answered some coding questions. I asked some follow up questions to the interviewer, in which I got answers back. I coding part went well. I took time to get the code working.