Not a professional place to work and have career longevity. - Product Manager eBay Employee Review

1.0
Jan 11, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Nice modern cafeteria system. Free breakfast, sodas, fruit, bagels (Wednesdays only). Free wine/beer (limit 2 drinks) after 3pm (never used). Most people are nice and friendly to work with. I wish I had more to say than that.

Cons

Spent several years at ebay HQ San Jose location as a PM (first as a rare long term contractor AWF (alternative workforce) then was converted to a short-lived full time employee that lasted up until a mass lay off). First, noticed and discovered while as an AWF after carefully watching my manager and department and many other teams that there is a silent and undetected corruption in staffing and budgeting by leadership (Senior Mangers, Directors, VP level), which occurs due to lack of oversight and continuous monitoring by ebay (they became informed). 2) No oversight and transparency from ebay for monitoring hiring managers integrity to hire and fire (especially AWF employees). 3) No oversight by ebay (before 2016-17) on hiring managers using random unfamiliar contract agencies to secretly hire and fire alternative workforce (AWF, known to be treated like second class citizens yet do the same job/work). 4) No oversight by ebay on the time limit to convert AWFs to full time (hiring managers have control and leave AWF status unknown for long duration which is job misclassification as a non-consultant or non-project based work (should be a labor violation)). Lack of diversity in core area of ebay (engineering and technology) where about less than 2% are Black and Latino in engineering related job roles (software developers, Quality, data scientists/ analysts, Product owners/managers etc.) and almost none in director or VP leadership. There are constant layoffs. Constant waste of time reorganizations and moving desks. Priorities change often when leadership shuffles. There are not many video conferencing meeting rooms where it was a struggle to find meeting rooms available (rooms sometimes empty, but listed as booked).

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

All good, love this company and this job

Cons

No, everything's just nice. I love the company

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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