eBay has many defining attributes - Anonymous employee eBay Employee Review

3.0
Jan 31, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

eBay's products offer value to consumers around the world. In these challenging financial times, you can get great deals on eBay and its other retail websites, pay easily with PayPal and speak for FREE with Skype to anyone in the world. They have amazing products that improve people's lives. This makes me feel proud to work there.

Cons

There is little attention paid to career development or adventuring. Sometimes people are afraid to say what they really think, despite management attempts to make it a more direct and open culture. Some more positives include working with a lot of nice people who see all of eBay's opportunities.

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

All good, love this company and this job

Cons

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3.0
Jun 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Relaxing culture. family first. Stock performance is generally good for the recent two years and huge benefit if you're eligible for ESPP. Stable product with large customer base means you get opportunity to work on project with real impact.

Cons

1. Blind push for AI and leadership expect unrealistic efficiency improvement 2. Layoff every year in Feb (2024, 2025, 2026) and sometimes can feel the tension in team 3. Legacy tech stack with isolated and fragile infrastructure. Developer friction is a real pain. You get random infra down every once a while and internal support becomes even worse since they started offshoring to LCOL area in 2025. 4. Hiring freeze in San Jose... just expect more layoff coming up + frequent meetings at night / early morning across regions

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