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      Strategy Manager Interview

      16 Aug 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at eBay (San Jose, CA) in Jul 2021

      Interview

      1st: Recruiter screening: - Please introduce yourself - Explain past relevant experience - Why ebay? 2nd: Hiring manager interview: - Why this position/ Why ebay? - Checking work capability - problem solving, math 3rd: On-site - pannel interview

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Market sizing estimation - How many college students are in the US?
      Answer question

      Other Strategy Manager interview reviews for eBay

      Strategy Manager Interview

      23 Jul 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at eBay (San Jose, CA) in Jun 2016

      Interview

      I was first contacted by a recruiter who asked prescriptive questions regarding my skillset and salary expectations. Afterwards I was scheduled for an initial phone interview with one of the managers on the team who was really nice and approachable. Questions were more around my work history, my thoughts around eBay's current strategy and how they can improve their business model. It was more conversational, how a proper interview should be. Next round was the onsite interviews and this is where you get the true sense of why they can't fill this role. As others have said here, the interview is skewed to be a one way on why they should hire you rather than seeing if there is a mutual fit. No discussion around what they have to offer or any insights about their day to day work and how the team operates, even after asking this as a question. You spend the day getting drilled like you're taking exams. It's clear that none of them coordinate questions prior since all of them asked the same thing and each one delivered similar case studies which they hammer to death during your hour. This means not one person asked about me and my career goals, what I'm looking for and absolutely no behavioral questions to determine fit. I think one of them was aware of their shortcomings in interviewing because he said to me unexpectedly that they don't know how to interview any other way. The worse part of the interview process was their lack of human courtesy, an insight into their depressing work environment. Usually at onsite interviews, the interviewer offers water or has water there available in the room. You're talking hour after hour, of course we need water! Of course we may need a bathroom break! When I asked one of them if I could have a glass of water, he was visibly irritated that I asked and then didn't bother helping me get it (how am I suppose to know where things are in your kitchen?). It is clear the team is highly arrogant and disrespectful and I determined very quickly I did not want to work with these people. No surprise that I've seen the job readvertised about 3 times. A godsend to not get an offer at this very sad place.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Each asked about why eBay, what I thought of eBay and how they can improve. Then onto case studies. Know how to do market sizing cases. All are ex-Big 3 consulting so this is the only way they know how to interview. Bring your own water bottle.
      1 Answer
      1

      Strategy Manager Interview

      21 Jul 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at eBay (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2016

      Interview

      Had a phone interview with a manager who was engaged, pleasant and seemed truly excited to talk to me. Was invited onsite afterwards to meet with 5 other people from the group. First interviewer was late, second one strolled in with just a cup of coffee (no laptop, notebook, etc) and yawned constantly. He made up questions on the spot, including a mini case based on my responses. Lunch was actually a formal interview - we got food from the employee café and brought it back to the interview room. The interviewer had a laptop open and was asking me questions and typing while I was trying to eat. All of them consistently cut me off when I was speaking and behaved as though the interview process was one-way only. None of them bothered to "sell" the group and the company to me. No one displayed basic courtesy of offering water or asking if I needed a break. I knew I was not going to get the offer because I did not do well during the case interviews. However I would think twice even if I did, because the group culture (with the exception of the phone interviewer) appears arrogant and somewhat disrespectful of others.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Gave some statistics regarding some products and asked for trends, causes of those trends, etc
      Answer question
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