eBay Reviews

I worked at eBay as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – excellent office environment
client interactions/meeting happens very transparent
good employee benefits

Cons – micro management by desi managers
bi weekly deploymet at late evening hours

Advice to Senior Management – nothing

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

I worked at eBay full-time for more than a year

Pros – dynamic, fast paced, people have good career growth

Cons – Engineering culture is bad at its best.

Advice to Senior Management – Engineering is not an hour to hour management.

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

I have been working at eBay full-time for less than a year

Pros – Very professional yet super casual. Not too much office gossip.

Cons – It's in Draper. If you work swing shift, you can't use public transportation.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work.

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

I worked at eBay full-time for more than a year

Pros – great health plans, free sodas and fun environment.

Cons – highly competitive internally. I worked for 2 years and couldnt move up in positions or depts.

Advice to Senior Management – More opportunities to advancement or have a better structure

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at eBay full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – -Working with many awesome folks
-Ability to learn
-Great CEO
-Cheap mass produced made in china products is great for business

Cons – -What product/feature to developed is groomed from what financial goal your group needs to hit instead of what is the best possible experience you can do for your customers

-The performance review process is based on popularity contest, as it is mandatory 10% of the staff in your team receives the lowest grade, thus the rating process is based on who is perceived as high performers vs. quantifiable achievements. What ends up happening is those true top performers become victims to those that have the ability to manage up very well. So even if you are in a team where your boss has your back, it doesn't help if you don't stand out and have recognition beyond your team.

-Pay is below industry average
-No free food
-Parking lot full when coming back from lunch

Advice to Senior Management – Don't be such a hypocrite. At all hands, the message is always, "Be the voice of the customer" or "We want to focus on solving work life balance", but then turn around and tell directors and VP to focus on hitting their financial targets over quality, and to squeeze their teams for higher performance with less people.

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

I worked at eBay full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Highly energetic intelligent people
Interesting projects, including some new complete rewrites

Cons – Chaotic environment
Too many meetings
Not strong lower level management

Advice to Senior Management – More communication - especially skip-level one on one meetings.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at eBay full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great to work from home. Good pay. OK benefits. Provided computer setup. ESPP. Stock options. Work schedules could be adjusted.

Cons – John Donahoe laid off the remote team at the first opportunity that came along. eBay then went on to post the highest profits to date. We lost all of our stock options which were underwater, but eBay traded out the rest of the employees stock options for new options with value.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't be cheapskates and remember who started eBay and were there from the beginning.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at eBay full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Okay pay
- Great atmosphere
- Team collaboration
- Very developed programs

Cons – - Too much work for one person to handle
- Not enough resources
- Growth is shunted by mid-level managers

Advice to Senior Management – Look at your mid-level managers and ensure they are engaging employees to the maximum.

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

I worked at eBay full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Some friendly and collaborative co-workers

Cons – - Like something out of a Dilbert cartoon
- Poor, depressing culture
- Long hours
- Terrible middle managers
- Heavy butt covering, me me me, command and control attitude of managers
- Managers watch your time like you are an hourly worker
- No arrival/departure time flexibility
- Pay 10-15% below market at the time (2008-2010)
- Co-workers not that smart. Couldn't learn anything from them.
- Very outdated software stack
- No room for innovation
- Product Managers ruled, and they weren't very good

I suffocated in this work environment (I was a new grad), dealt with jealousy of co-workers and managers, was constantly micro-managed and boxed-in, and was never given any real room to try new things, learn new things, do new things, or implement things differently. Every attempt to do something new was met with talk that I didn't know what I was doing, or was squashed for some other reason.

The managers constantly insisted that I didn't know how to do A and that I didn't know how to do B even though I clearly new, and they went to great lengths to ensure that I would never get an opportunity to do them to "prove myself." The managers were obsessed with knowing and commenting on the time I got into work and the time I left and would harass me about this (and any random thing they could find), rather than leave me to do my work.

Advice to Senior Management – Company culture needs work and so does the software that powers the site.

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

I have been working at eBay full-time for more than a year

Pros – You will be rewarded for your efforts, and you will be able to be heard by management. There is a growing culture of innovation, too.

Cons – Change and innovation may not happen as quickly as you would like. eBay is a big company and can take a while to adopt or understand that there is a change that's needed (although it's lessening as they adopt new methodology, technology and infrastructure).

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