eBay Reviews

Current Employee – been working at eBay full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – 1. Excellent work life balance.
2. You can leave at 6 PM and be done for the day.
3. Flexible work hours.
4. Frequent parties for employees keeps the morale up.

Cons – 1. Too much red tape.
2. Salary lower than market rates for the same position. I mean fairly low, really low.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to ensure that projects are done in an agile manner.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at eBay

Pros – Encouraging management, focus on what matters.

Cons – Need a little more action orientation.

Advice to Senior Management – Let's fix the existing bugs with just as much energy and motivation.

Current Employee – been working at eBay full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great people, great minds. Truly inspiring colleagues.

Cons – Salary negotiations are not easy.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at eBay full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – great place to work. open minded and great minds

Cons – living cost and it can be really expensive

Advice to Senior Management – nothing really

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at eBay full-time for more than a year

Pros – My manager and (most of my) colleagues were professionals, and it was a pleasure to work with them.
Great benefits.
Good work life balance. My manager was fine with me working from 6-8 at home, and then from 9-4 at the office.

Cons – Physical environment was awful for software development.

Salary was not competitive, even when compared to those performing similar work in the company.

I got decent performance bonuses, however I object to distribution "on a curve", where managers essentially have to duke it out so their reports can get decent bonuses. This ingrains a belief that you can't have a team where multiple people are performing at "exceeds expectations"-- which isn't true.

Advice to Senior Management – The millions of dollars that were spent constructing the new Draper facility will be dwarfed by the millions of dollars in lost productivity over the life of the building. You really should have built in some quiet areas (offices) where people doing thought-work could concentrate.

I left for a 50% salary increase; I didn't feel I could accept eBay's offers to match it because I didn't feel I would be able to deliver 50% more in the environment I was asked to work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at eBay full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Bagels, Pop, People, Benefits, Anti Religion and Pro Gay

Cons – A company that has too much money and wins despite itself. Sad to see eBay make so much money when they have no clue what their customers really want. We have so many people working on the same things that its just chaos half the time. If you know how to do a good Powerpoint you can live the dream job. If you know politics even better and make sure you are a yes sir person

Advice to Senior Management – Focus more on Technology in CS. Duplication and tools are mediocre. Several People in Management need to go. Mostly in the Manager/Director level at CS. Water cooler gang that keeps control and doesn't focus on real customer issues as long as they look good and get credit for nonsense.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at eBay full-time for more than a year

Pros – Smart people in general. New president making the right decision in my opinion. They tend to pay above market due to the lower brand reputation.

Cons – Internal conflicts are still present. Tension between Product and the Business is unhealthy. Everything moves very slow and turnover is high. Surprisingly hard to move around internally unless you've already built up the relationship.

Advice to Senior Management – Crack down on the internal politics. Product vs BU needs to be resolved.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at eBay full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Lots of opportunities to learn and grow.
interesting problems to solves.
being proud as an eBayer that your work helps millions of people in the world to make their livings on eBay.
nice office buildings and facilities

Cons – It used to be a really great company to work for - very efficient, lots of great, passionate talents. Now lots of politics, lots of Indians....

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at eBay

Pros – - One of the few standing survivors of the dot com era
- Perks of a large corporation - onsite gym, 1 month sabbatical after 5 years of employment, etc.
- Location: SJ/Campbell preference over Menlo Park/Palo Alto area where every startup and tech co. lives
- Easy and encouraged to move around the company

Cons – - Though no longer a start up still has a lack of processes
- Like other large corporations - working culture: popularity contest and highly competitive
- eBay's underpinnings of founder Omidyar's philosophies are not reflected in working culture
- Senior leadership not diverse, gender or ethnicity

Former Employee – worked at eBay full-time for more than a year

Pros – Fun environment. Some of the supervisors are really great. The pay is decent.

Cons – If you want to do something other than customer service, you better have atleast Bachelor's degree better if you have an MBA. No matter the the customers don't speak that language.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't focus so much on educational degrees for positions that are in direct contact with the eBay sellers, this is not the biggest priority.