eBay reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,652 total reviews)
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Jamie Iannone

78% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

eBay has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,652 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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3.0
Sep 14, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

high growth industry collaborative, supportive, "do good" culture large challenges but similarly large opportunities

Cons

inertia of legacy business - auction was great but is not the future, yet is a drag rather than the backbone for the future too many hierarchical layers oveerly simplistic communication in managing an overly complex business

2.0
Sep 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A good place to start your career. Lots of development and training courses. There are some very smart people that work here that you can learn from. I have to say, I've learned a lot here but I've also learned that company politics play a huge role in the way people get promoted here.

Cons

Employee morale has been very low since due to the way senior management gives out promotions. Not much work life balance with little rewards. Working hard doesn't always pay off unless you know how to play the game here.

1.0
Sep 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I worked there for nearly 5 years. It was just barely acceptable when I started. It was hopeless when I left. If you're in marketing, you will probably love it. Engineering and Product Management will hate you with a burning passion, but eBay is a marketing company that happens to (be forced to) do tech.

Cons

A super political work environment - I've worked at banks with less political BS. Very top heavy. There is lots of talk about "innovation" and "work life balance", it is all lip service. Innovation does not happen here (not even in the labs or search), work life balance is a joke - I have to tell a story re: WLB - at one of the (very very frequent) organizational all hands meetings, management decided to talk about the "work life balance" initiative, it was a 9am meeting and, shock, I was there - because I was up all night working around a severe bug in the ridiculous V3 code base; so I started nodding off in the meeting - that's irony for you. in the nominal 40 hour work week, I would spend a minimum of 15 hours in meetings. Every week. Every. Single. Week. And for about 3 weeks every quarter, I would spend over 25 hours a week in meetings. If for some reason you have to work with the CS teams in SLC, god help you. The single most back-biting group of vermin I've ever seen. Just horrendous.

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