eBay Reviews

Pros

Collaboration. Opportunity to learn new skills. Employee centric. Investing more in technology and inftrastructure to grow.

Cons

Complex networks of people and departments. Challenge to maintain roots and compete with changing eCommerce world.

Advice to Senior Management

Maintain accountability for projects post-launch for a longer period of time.

Pros

Good benefits with sock options (if you qualify), medical, 401k from day one. Many small perks, but slc location is second fiddle to san Jose. Overall is a good place to work.

Cons

Fast paced and many changes. Often left not knowing where you stand. Metrics often tough to meet but it is a call center so what else should I expect.

Pros

- Good work-life balance; company is flexible about working from home, other offices, etc.
- Generally respect individual employee's contribution
- People are friendly and generally fun to work with
- Things can move fast -- not a lot of bereaucracy

Cons

- Leadership in APAC is poor -- leaders are not strategic -- mainly short-term number driven and lack the ability to articulate a clear vision/strategy and motivate and inspire team to do great things
- Leaders in APAC tolerate bad behaviors by some senior middle management -- for example, some well-connected director/senior directors are promoted despite poor performance, directors that make offensive comments based on gender/sexual orientation are tolerated, some directors spend large amount on dubious business trips/entertainment
- Promotions are not performance-based and rather on person connections

Advice to Senior Management

- Promote people based on performance *and* exemplary leadership behaviors and integrity to set the right tone for the organization
- Have courage to do important strategic things and stop doing small little things that don't add up to anything meaningful for users/merchants, etc.

Pros

stock options were really good early on

Cons

exec management seems to be incompetent

Advice to Senior Management

start to innovate

Pros

Flexible work environment
Trusting the employee is important

Cons

company is still working on ensuring front line management is following the principles that the senior management team is requesting

Pros

eBay is a Nice place to work

Cons

Work Life balance is hit or miss, depending on your leadership team

Pros

Good work life balance. No one will care if you leave at 5pm or don't show up at work.

Cons

Too many meetings. No one will know if you leave at 5pm or don't show up at work, because you could be in a meeting. No visionary among management/exec team; play it safe approach. Promote only ex-Microsoft employees

Advice to Senior Management

Need to make bolder big bets. There is no strategy or product roadmap. Tried to copy Amazon but every effort was half-a$$

Pros

1. Great campuses
2. great talent
3. fast paced
4. ever growing company
5. decent (industry average) benefits
6. sabbatical

Cons

1. weird career progression paths, people value more 'flexibility' than actual expertise in one specific area
2. reasons to promote are unorthodox to say the least, tenure, expertise and academia are not part of them
3. knowledge management (in certain areas) is absent, it just leaves with the employee
4. eight different managers in five years
5. acquisitions occur so fast that many times is hard to understand the potential synergies
6. shared services DO NOT scale with the ever growing size of the company, in five years I saw HR go from "decent" to "totally unacceptable"

Advice to Senior Management

Silicon Valley is not a fun place to have a talent crisis.

Pros

1. Interesting work
2. Smart, respectful people
3. Good, flexible work hours
4. Lots of corporate events, parties, paid for travel etc

Cons

1. Career progression is confusing
2. Decision making can be slow
3. Mid-level managers aren't the most talented

Advice to Senior Management

If we got rid of 20% of the workforce, I don't think the company will miss a beat. Decision making will be faster.

Pros

Innovative enviroment, silicon valley, flex hours

Cons

Front end belongs to an earlier web-time . .

Advice to Senior Management

great job on the back-end, fulfillment, etc., but enhance the gui adn functionality . . sorting seems like it was lifted from Alta Vista . . lol!