eBay reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,653 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 5,653 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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6K reviews
2.0
Nov 1, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

They have top notch benefits and pay.

Cons

First, under no circumstances work here if you are in QA. You are not even a human being if you are in QA. The whole company looks down on QA as some sort of second class citizen that they want to get rid of as soon as possible and the executives will say it to your face if they don't know you're in QA. It's a bad place for development, too. They have a bunch of proprietary technologies they use and learning those is a gigantic waste of time. First, you're learning to use badly written code, poorly designed user interfaces, and tools sets that can only be described as antediluvian. It's madness. The technologies you are learning to work with are used by no other company in the world because it's proprietary. When I was there they had their own version of cloud services for internal use. It was terrible and you need to be using an industry standard platform like AWS or Azure if you want career growth outside eBay. It is a great place to be a manager. Managers are given a whole different level of treatment than regular employees and they generally don't get laid off in the rounds of layoffs that occur once or twice a year.

1.0
Aug 24, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You’ll get to work with some very intelligent people at eBay, pay is competitive, benefits are great.

Cons

Buckle up because there are so many cons… 1. Management does not care about you. You are a work horse for them and will continue to put pressure unless you set limits. 2. No clear path for advancement. Literally none. You can ask your manager about this in every 1:1, that is if you’re lucky enough to have the same manager for more than 6 months (see #3), but you will have to be the squeaky wheel to get any kind of traction on a promotion. 3. Constant restructuring and turnover. This creates a pretty tense work environment when you have to shift your roadmap and working style ever ~6 months because people either leave or there’s another “reorg”. 4. Roadmap planning is different every year…probably again because of #3, and it’s always rushed. You’ll be expected to start work on Q1 projects and not have a finalized roadmap until Q1 has already started. This already sets up up for failure and causes you to miss deadlines. 5. Bigger projects tend to lack end to end vision. Mainly because the planning process is so rushed that design/product/etc is never given enough time to fully explore all the use cases which leads to missing use cases and broken features…and ultimately upset end users.

1.0
May 12, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It was close to home

Cons

Bad culture: employees hard-pressed to answer a phone or reply to an email - just did their own things Bad culture: too many "empire builders" just cared about how big their teams were Bad culture: too much internal / product change based on short-term market metrics (quarterly performance, stock price, etc)

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