Lots of great people, but bloated process and too much politics - Software Engineer eBay Employee Review

4.0
Mar 12, 2026
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Pros

work/life balance can be good (depends on the team) a lot of talented people some projects are genuinely interesting and contemporary (others may lag behind the industry by a few years or more)

Cons

eBay has been around for a long time, and it shows. Like in a geology class, when examining layers of rock, some of the code reads the same way. Lots of reinventing the wheel - e.g. you might spend a year on a project and then learn that another team did essentially the same thing. Politics... The cycles of over-hiring and layoffs are pretty demoralizing, both from a human standpoint and in terms of simply having a cohesive vision.

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5.0
May 17, 2026
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Pros

good culture friendly people and good benefits

Cons

leadership direction politics tenured individuals who do not change their ways of working

5.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

Good work, lots of AI experiments, AI innovation, latest tech stack, Co-workers are very co-operative and helpful. Most AI tools are still unlimited.

Cons

Some teams are over-working due to smaller teams as a result of recent layoffs. Office perks (like catered food, snacks) are dwindling every quarter even though company wants every employee to be 3 days a week in office. Company wants 80 percent code to be generated by AI but no clear guideline how to achieve that.

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