eBay Reviews

Pros

Technology and domain is very good. There are ample opportunities for growth.
Very flexible in office work timings and culture.

Cons

They have internal frameworks for J2EE , webservice and similar modules. It kind off closes you to the external world or makes relating to latest tech's difficult.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Talented junior employees, nice facilities and perks.

Cons

Product development is slow compared to competition.

Advice to Senior Management

Work more with PayPal and liaise with the industry. Acquire more internet professionals and engineers, less consultants.

Pros

eBay has a strong purpose, great people and tons of opportunity for growth.

Cons

Decision-making tends to be slow because of the emphasis on consensus-building rather than on speed and smart risk-taking.

Advice to Senior Management

Be decisive and responsible -- employees want/need to see leaders taking charge. that's why they're called leaders.
Be okay with making mistakes quickly, learning from them, then moving on.

Pros

Overly compensated for the amount of work employees do. Easy jobs.

Cons

Management has no clue what they're doing. Employees are unmotivated.

Pros

Good benefits. Good working conditions. Casual work environment. Family friendly policies. Better than average pay for the area. Referral bonus.

Cons

Poor management. Dismal morale. No coherent strategy. Politically motivated managers. No performance metrics for higher paid positions. Resentment among many in rank and file toward mid-level managers. Lack of trust.

Advice to Senior Management

Find better ways to tie performance to incentives and rewards. Put together a coherent, actionable long-range vision that can be translated into mid-range strategies and near-term objectives.

Pros

Mostly friendly good people to work with (some bad apples that proliferate). Flexible scheduling. Free sodas and Wednesday bagels.

Cons

Work many many weekends. Deliverables expectations are far reaching in a small time period. Work/life is inconsistent -- either relatively lax for 3 months or crazy busy for 6. Ladder climbers proliferate.

Advice to Senior Management

Surveys are useless at eBay. I know for a fact that there was a huge amount of negative feedback on the new floor design, and yet the internal messages disregarded this and said everyone thought it was a fantastic idea. Surveys sent out for feedback on managers are also hard to gauge since no one wants to be the Negative Nancy; there is always the fear of retaliation from upper management or the bad reputation of an employee who told the truth.

Pros

You get to work on a site that you use and really care about.

Cons

Some groups can have ambiguous career progression paths...

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure employees have clear line of sight regarding career progression opportunities

Pros

Intelligent people. Good benefits. Work life balance.

Cons

Not latest cutting edge technology, some times too slow to change

Pros

Benefits that are outstanding, great work environment, low on the the office politics scale. Great community outreach. Centrally located, Open environment for discussion.

Cons

Navigating the corporate infrastructure for policy, product, program and technology. Middle and senior management often get "promotions" that do not seem to be validated.

Advice to Senior Management

Got to be fresh. Build better systems to deal with technology, and rely on key stakeholders and passionate associates with track record and valuable insight.

Pros

satisfying compensation
information and knowledge sharing
cutting edge technology

Cons

excessive politics and turf wars
demanding work
poor work life balance