Morale being sucked out quickly since Meg left, staff being trained to be robots. - Customer Services Representative eBay Employee Review

1.0
27 Dec 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Wage is at par for other call center environments. Two years ago, employees were happy and they were the "next stop" up from garbage outsourced call centers, but now they are just miserable.

Cons

Impossible to maintain metrics once you are failing. QC is once a week, when you need to have 8 QC's passing in a week to just meet metrics which never happens. Too many sources of metrics makes it easy for management to terminate employees for not meeting just one of them. Not allowed to actually help eBay members, repeatedly told to provide intentionally useless email responses and just send them out as fast as possible. Outsourced help in the Philippines sending out useless messages or routing things back wastes time.

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5.0
28 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible and intuitive to use

Cons

Buyers always get prioritized with no full comp to sellers

3.0
20 June 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

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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