Severe lack of timely decision making by Executives - Senior Manager eBay Employee Review

2.0
22 Mar 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work with many highly intelligent and talented engineers, good benefits and extras, nice fitness centers and cafeterias. Wide cultural variety without discrimination.

Cons

Responsibility is handed out to everyone, however authority is tightly held by Executives so the stress level is high. Re-Orgs occur at least once a year, sometimes twice in less than 12 months. Severe crowding in many buildings. Instead of offices or cubes the company is going to high-school cafeteria style tables with too many people crammed together.

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5.0
13 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People, decent benefits, focus on customer

Cons

Anything that is typical with a large enterprise company

3.0
20 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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