Data Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at eBay with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Engineer roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 2 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 Data Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied online. I interviewed at eBay (Dublin, Dublin) in Apr 2025
Interview
Applied on their site. The recruiter reached out the next week and scheduled an interview, which mentioned it would be a live coding round. Though it wasn't, and the interviewer actually asked simple questions, I fumbled badly.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at eBay (Amsterdam) in Apr 2024
Interview
First call to describe the role and some technical questions about the past projects
Second call, coding interview where you're left alone and when you have questions nobody is looking at you or hearing you out, weird.
Third call: System design interview, there were a lot of questions and replies and it was interesting.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Past projects
Python iterators
Design a data pipeline
I did take the first round hr phone screen, then I took some tech questions in the next round : stats, sql, python not difficult and lasted around 30 min in total. The interviewers were nice!!