I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at eBay
Interview
Overall the interview wasn't too bad.
I interviewed for 2 teams at the same time, each having an hour phone interview and a 5 hour phone panel with multiple people. The questions were mostly medium LC style questions with the occasional hard mixed in.
The mostly disappointing part is that after spending 12 hours interviewing, one of the recruiters ghosted me, not replying to any emails or updating me.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at eBay in Aug 2021
Interview
Got hooked up by 3rd party recruiter to an SDE position.
No HR call or tech screening, booked 6 hours virtual onsite right away, split into 3 sessions.
First 2 sessions were pair programming. The first one was OK but I could feel they couldn’t wait to have it finished.
The 2nd one looked like they just grabbed a dude out of bed to run it without any context. No intro, spent 5 minutes to find a working collab tool, typed in a one liner problem. I finished in 30 mins while pretty much talking to air.
The 2nd part was expressed in such a vague way that I carefully confirmed the expected output on paper and spent 20 mins coding it out, then got told it wasn’t what was asked. And you just watched me going in a wrong direction for 20 mins and not saying anything? Probably wasn’t watching at all in the first place.
Then talked through the solution to the actual problem and time was up.
There are 3.5 hours of interviews left and I feel like telling the recruiter to just cancel it. Such waste of time. I have no intention to work in teams like this. I have spent about 30 hours in interviews for the past month, and this is by far the worst exp.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at eBay (Ámsterdam) in Aug 2021
Interview
Worst job interview experience of my life.
2 video calls. First one was so nice, 2 friendly people talked about what they are doing and my past experiences.
Then there was another interview 15 mins later with another 2 people which cannot smile. They asked me a few technical questions then we started a simple coding exercise on shared screen. This kind of situations is stressful for the interviewees and I was stressed, then one of the Interviewer's kid started crying on the background, I couldn't even understand what they are saying, asked the questions again a few times but it kept like that a few minutes. I was stressed more and more, they didn't even try to apologise or managed the situation . I kindly told them I cannot continue and end the interview.
It's so sad they cannot provide basic professional environment.