Good upper management, incompetent middle management - Anonymous employee eBay Employee Review

2.0
Mar 19, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are a lot of nice people and some really smart people here A lot of problems that could be interesting to work on Many teams really do want to do good work

Cons

If you're on the wrong team, nothing matters other than hitting an arbitrary number that does not have any impact on company performance. There is a large amount of power in overseas teams that don't understand what they're doing. This is a very serious problem and will wind up destroying the company if it isn't fixed. The most talented people are leaving because of it. eBay lives on the sunk cost fallacy. They never change course regardless of the evidence. They re-invent the wheel constantly, building tools at an expense many times higher than purchasing pre-existing tools made by third parties.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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