Poor leadership in APAC office leads to very high attrition - Anonymous employee eBay Employee Review

3.0
Jan 3, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Good work-life balance; company is flexible about working from home, other offices, etc. - Generally respect individual employee's contribution - People are friendly and generally fun to work with - Things can move fast -- not a lot of bereaucracy

Cons

- Leadership in APAC is poor -- leaders are not strategic -- mainly short-term number driven and lack the ability to articulate a clear vision/strategy and motivate and inspire team to do great things - Leaders in APAC tolerate bad behaviors by some senior middle management -- for example, some well-connected director/senior directors are promoted despite poor performance, directors that make offensive comments based on gender/sexual orientation are tolerated, some directors spend large amount on dubious business trips/entertainment - Promotions are not performance-based and rather on person connections

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5.0
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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

3.0
Jun 20, 2026
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Pros

Relaxing culture. family first. Stock performance is generally good for the recent two years and huge benefit if you're eligible for ESPP. Stable product with large customer base means you get opportunity to work on project with real impact.

Cons

1. Blind push for AI and leadership expect unrealistic efficiency improvement 2. Layoff every year in Feb (2024, 2025, 2026) and sometimes can feel the tension in team 3. Legacy tech stack with isolated and fragile infrastructure. Developer friction is a real pain. You get random infra down every once a while and internal support becomes even worse since they started offshoring to LCOL area in 2025. 4. Hiring freeze in San Jose... just expect more layoff coming up + frequent meetings at night / early morning across regions

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