eBay reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,660 total reviews)
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Jamie Iannone

79% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

eBay has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,660 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The eBay employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Nov 13, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The health insurance and 401k matching (100% match of up to 25% of your salary with immediate vesting - potentially 50% of your salary value into your 401k every year) was some of the best I've ever seen.

Cons

The cons were very much like any place. Jobs would be filled by people that you may not respect. You think you could do better, but you don't get the job. I went elsewhere and got a better paying job in the same field for which I was rejected at this company. I could complain, but that does happen at other places, right? It's not a business to business company, so your interactions with "clients" aren't quite as professional as they are with b2b companies. eBay sellers can be a little trashy. One angry women calling in told me that I was nothing, dirt, etc., and that she was very important because she made $65,000 / year. At least she was above the 50th percentile, but she certainly showed that the majority of eBayers aren't the brightest clients. There are some good positions in Draper, but for the most part it's just call center type stuff and those who work in good positions would be working amongst the call center people. Be prepared for some zoo-like bathrooms.

5.0
Nov 12, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

I've been with eBay for quite some time now and can honestly tell that eBay has been through real technology turnaround in the last 3-4 years, it started by hiring new management team and it’s now affecting the individual contributor level. I grew up in this company’s product management org, and while only few years ago product management was about pitching for budget through ppt presentations and celebrating project approvals, now days it’s about collaborating with the engineering team, delivering a product, measuring success and celebrating our business impact. eBay marketplaces, and search in particular, is one of those places where you actually work on the core product and affect millions of users with every product change, we truly move the business needle and drive the company growth (check our stock price in the past 2 years!), and eventually, the true leaders of the organization, whether they are new employees or folks who’ve been around (like me) get recognized & compensated accordingly. The company is really focused on hiring great new talents; I can truly say the team becomes better every year.

Cons

Change is hard for many employees with the competition out there we sometime lose the leading talents. Like in any other big company, a lot of “low/average” performing employees are still around.

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