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      3.9

      73% would recommend to a friend

      (5,657 total reviews)
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      Jamie Iannone

      79% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      eBay has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,657 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
      1.0
      Dec 10, 2010

      Startup got acquired.. eBay is a typical big company, ultra-slow to move and therefore stuck in the past.

      Software engineer v
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The salary is acceptable. The campus is conveniently located. The benefits are adequate. Generous combination of 401k matching, bonus, stock, and ESPP.

      Cons

      Parking is tight. Space in general is tight. There is effectively no choice in health insurance, with Kaiser being the only HMO and only one PPO and one CDHP plan. Upper management is profoundly ignorant of its employees: would you acquire a startup without at least talking to the most highly compensated workers in addition to the founders? The HR/security/stock/accounting systems are disparate. MS Exchange is the corporate email standard, with all the limitations that implies. Several MILLION lines of Java in the codebase, with no hope of changing. The performance review process is from the '90s, managers review their subordinates, full stop. Bonus, stock, and ESPP are all on a protracted 7-14 month schedule, slow moving like everything else.

      2.0
      Oct 25, 2009

      Nice campus, better get used to the view.

      Staff software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Nice gym, though crowded at times * Free coffee. * Competitive, though not compelling, benefits * There are some interesting projects going on

      Cons

      * Sub-par management. Knee jerk reactions are par for the course. * Poor vision and leadership from executives * Work life balance is poor for engineers; due to unreasonable schedules, management that doesn't fight for their employees, offshoring of key functions, and a sweatshop culture * Very inefficient development processes

      2.0
      May 18, 2009

      Senior Management Has Little/No Clue!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      No matter what it's become, eBay is still the place the pioneered ecommerce. There's something to be said for that - and to the extent that you can squeeze some learning out of the heritage of the place it's a good place to be.

      Cons

      Senior Management (and I mean the TOP senior management) has no clue what they're doing. They don't actually use the site, and spend all of their time looking at data about OTHER PEOPLE who use the site. They then try to draw conclusions based on their review of that data, but since they have no visceral experience with the site their conclusions are often incorrect in subtle ways that doom whatever initiative they're proposing. They then try to remedy this situation by looking at even more data, and the cycle continues. John Donahoe has never RUN a real company (consulting doesn't count), and it all starts with him.

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