It's not as good as they make it out to be. - Anonymous employee eBay Employee Review

1.0
May 21, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They have great benefits and decent pay.

Cons

There is NO work/life balance, Metrics are EVERYTHING even when you are brand new to the floor. They will make you do jobs of other departments plus your own without explaining why they are making you do it, with little to no training with no pay increases or bonus ( normal training is usually 12 weeks). If you're looking to grow with the company it's all about who you know and no what you've done for the company, even if you're a top preformer. They give you a policy to enforce with customers but if you follow it and your customer gets mad you , you get counseling on what you should have done instead of what ebay trains you to do. So you are basically taking calls from a bunch of entitled people who will curse you out until you do what they want and you have to take it from the customers until you Manager (TL/Team Lead) decides to take over the call and only to just give the customer what they want. It's very much a thankless job .

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

Sunday work can be challenging- due to daycare challenges, but ebay supports work/life balance so its not really a con

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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