Pros
eBay Inc has great benefits including medical, vision, dental, and flex spending; an onsite gym and trainer, cafeteria, PTO, sabbaticals every 5 years. The corporation really tries to take care of employees.
Cons
The facility in Draper, Utah is poorly run and managed. Promotions are rarely based on merit, but if you're liked. In my 8 years there I knew 5 or fewer good supervisors. For the most part they are terrible, have different interpretations of the policies and adhere to them differently. If a supervisor doesn't like you they will watch you like a hawk until they have enough to get you fired. (Meanwhile they are almost never fired or demoted for poor performance.) The only way to get ahead there is to kiss up and hope you're well liked. The morale in many departments is very low and people are frustrated but nothing changes. Many people stick around due to great benefits and OK pay even though they are miserable. eBay's great benefits make it hard for people to feasibly leave. Promotions are very hard to come by unless you take a specific path (even then it's difficult). If you don't have a desire to become a coach, supervisor, manager, you may be out of luck. eBay has tons of cool jobs, but it's nearly impossible to get to those without going becoming a supervisor first. Many people don't want to become supervisors but have great skills in other areas, so they're held back because there's no path for them to get promoted.
