I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at eBay (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2008
Interview
Met with four people - A peer, two managers, and department head.
The interview was well organized, but "looking back" the recruiter did not prepare me well enough.
If you interview for eBay, *PLAN* that they will ask you to be able to come up with calculation methods for projects of scale - as in eBay world-wide scale, and "how would you do this task, if you have 50 Million transactions to perform in one hour?"
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Scaling infrastructure with unknown large quantities of information?