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eBay interviews FAQs
Applied Scientist Intern applicants have rated the interview process at eBay with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Applied Scientist Intern roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at eBay overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at eBay as a Applied Scientist Intern according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Two rounds of back-to-back interviews. First round, a scientist asks about basic statistics and ML questions. Second round, an SDE asks an LC question. Everything is on CodeSignal, you have to write all of your thinking process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It is a DP problem for LC, probably LC medium difficulty.
There are two rounds of interviews. The first round is a technical interview and it involves coding. The second round is on research and they will ask about my previous projects and my plan for the intern. The second round follows right after the first round.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at eBay in Nov 2022
Interview
2 back-to-back 1 hour video interviews, consisting of resume questions, ML basics, and a leetcode medium level coding question. The interviewers are pretty nice and helpful. There's also time at the end of the interview to let you ask about the company and the role.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Explain Random forest, Transformer, Attention, LSTM cells, etc