Disconcerting - Software Engineer II eBay Employee Review

2.0
26 Jan 2024
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Pros

If you're a full-time employee you will definitely be able to learn a lot. Benefits are incredible.

Cons

Extremely variable experience depending on your manager. Lots of meaningless meetings. Incredibly difficult to get anything done in an appreciable window of time. Vitriolic levels of workplace toxicity, backed up by almost every amicable team member I'd worked with jumping ship in the span of a few months. Also assigned responsibilities highly disproportionate (i.e. in excess) to my actual job level / compensation. Nobody is motivated and a lot of blame-shifting all around. It is an absolutely thankless role, exacerbated by employees I knew did legitimately earnest / above-and-beyond work getting laid off regardless simply to meet upper management headcount culling. It's depressing since none of this was at all the case when I entered.

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5.0
2 June 2026
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Pros

It is equivalent to winning the lottery for a dream job.

Cons

Sunday work can be challenging- due to daycare challenges, but ebay supports work/life balance so its not really a con

5.0
27 May 2026
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Pros

Good work, lots of AI experiments, AI innovation, latest tech stack, Co-workers are very co-operative and helpful. Most AI tools are still unlimited.

Cons

Some teams are over-working due to smaller teams as a result of recent layoffs. Office perks (like catered food, snacks) are dwindling every quarter even though company wants every employee to be 3 days a week in office. Company wants 80 percent code to be generated by AI but no clear guideline how to achieve that.

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