eBay interview questions

Had two technical interviews in initial phase. I was asked about my previous experience in software engineering, design and analysis. Some questions were related to Web technologies. But interviewers were also interested in my programming languages skills, SQL and database technologies. Some data structures questions were asked. Few questions to see my ability to understand problems and find solutions were asked as well. I wrote some code on the board.

The interviewing process was professional and every interviewer kept to their time slots. But the questions were not challenging and almost felt like it was an exercise, rather than trying to see what I could bring to the table. One interviewer tried to tell me that working there would be very tough and it was not like it used to be - almost like a warning to run. Later learned from a friend of a friend, that eBay had laid off a significant number of project mgrs (he was one of the laid off project mgrs) and they would be re-organized into a very different organization. It was positive to see that most of the management for project mgrs were women. This was my second interview process (the first one was in 2002), which also did no result in a job offer