Going Downhill... - Anonymous employee eBay Employee Review

2.0
May 20, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Relaxed culture and friendly people, can learn a lot in ecommerce working at this Auction giant, good benefits and facilities for employees

Cons

clueless senior management, leadership doesnt care about people in most places within the company, used to be great in the past but last 2-3 years has seen a strong decline. some teams are full of incompetent people that no one is ready to do anything about.

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5.0
Apr 28, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay and beneifts and the overall work experience

Cons

None at this time it’s been great

3.0
Jun 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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