The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at eBay (New York, NY)
Interview
EBay Cloud team is very low end. They are going to hire 30+ ppl it seems but the team looked very low end. Right from the questions asked to the knowledge level of the team in terms of algorithms, design and data structures. When asked for a solution to read and sort names of ppl stored in a file on the disk, when I gave them an optimized in memory read, sort, right back to disk solution, the interviewer told me "You dont need to do the sorting in memory. You are thinking too much!". Well! you plan to build your own cloud solution with this level of knowledge?! You want to.do away with Nicara's product but do you have the skillsets? When i explained the architecture of a distributed system i was working in my prev company, the interviewer didnt even seem to understand and appeared totally lost ! I resolved all the problems in optimized way and did very well but they didnt give offer. Looked to me they might have thought they would have needed to pay me more if offered and also i believe the interviewers thought they wont be able to work with such skilled ppl, so they made a negative report and submitted. Man! get some candidates from Cisco or other low end companies for your interviews. I have an offer from Uber and joining!!!
I applied in-person. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at eBay (New York, NY) in Feb 2017
Interview
5 professional interviews followed by an hr interview. In each interview you are asked to describe one of your projects in details. Also, in some interviews you are presented with a real data science challenge and asked to suggest a solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Suggest a modeling process for a binary classification task with skewed and unbalanced data
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at eBay (Bellevue, WA) in Sep 2017
Interview
They never reimbursed my interview expenses after many follow-up emails. I did a lot of onsite interviews. This is my only experience without getting reimbursed and NO RESPONSE from the recruiters and interview coordinators. They did book the hotel for me, but they did not prepay for the room.
If they are flying you for the on-site interviews, be prepared to afford all the interview expense (Hotel, Meals, and Rental Car/Uber etc.) on your own as they won’t reimburse you!!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sorry, cant disclose because of NDA but they were very straightforward.