eBay attracts a lot of great people, then the company culture beats them down and they leave within a couple of years. - Senior Product Manager eBay Employee Review

2.0
Aug 22, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It's a good name to have on your resume, and you will be working for a company that provides a living to millions of people. Bonus structure is good for a tech company.

Cons

Upper management is inept and tends to "swoop" in and make arbitrary changes to projects without supporting data. Politics is nasty, especially on the business side of things. There is significant favoritism given towards skinny blonde chicks by some senior managers. It takes a lot of work to get products out. John Donahoe is, I expect, going to run the company into the ground; he doesn't understand the eBay ecosystem, and driving Rajiv Dutta out of the company was a truly crazy thing for him to do.

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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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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