eBay Reviews in San Jose, CA Area

Pros

technology adaption,competitive staff,are very good in equipping the employees with enough resources to work. very good career development framework

Cons

work place management is too bad.Pay has to be more competitive with the market.Appraisal and feedback should be fair .

Pros

new management, customer centric, encourage employee to grow

Cons

Too much re organization, politics is not healthy

Advice to Senior Management

improve cross team work

Pros

good package for employees, including those who are just part-time or intern.
great sharing platform and timely training seminars.

Cons

the life cycle of new application is too long to make ebay more robotic. could set up some awards to encourage employees to innovate

Advice to Senior Management

interaction between business and technology teams should be even enhanced. could promote more coffee break events to facilitate such kind of communications.

Pros

Good place to work with a lot of talented people, nice to work in order to update your technical skills as there are a lot of opportunites for education, etc.

Cons

Bad management, chaotic arrangements, erratic behavior by some senior managers, causing confusion on decision making and often too many conflicting signals while hiring on one hand, laying off on the other.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to straighten out the management and the top-down messaging is rather confusing and sometimes in denial with the ground reality.

Pros

Take good care of employees
Fast paced and happening place
Good support from management

Cons

Still in start up mode

Advice to Senior Management

process,process,process

Pros

welcomes ideas, good team work

Cons

difficult to execute, no hold on fraud

Advice to Senior Management

execute faster and stop making absurd acquisitions

Pros

eBay is a Nice place to work

Cons

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

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

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.