Great place to work in terms of benefits,
Free food, gym, yoga, language classes
good to have the company in your cv
Access to new technology
Very intl crowd
Cons
Hard to be promoted,
lots of politics,
Poor performance review,
Not clear promotion path,
Late working hours
No life work balance
eBay Response
9y
Thank you for your review. We are glad to hear you enjoy our numerous perks and benefits – our hardworking employees deserve the best! We are also sorry to hear of your experience with eBay’s structure. We encourage all employees to discuss career growth and work-life balance opportunities with their managers as growth and satisfaction is important to us on all levels.
Challenging work, great company culture. There is something genuinely motivating about building for a brand that everyone knows and uses: the scale and real-world stakes make the work feel meaningful. The AI work specifically is at the frontier of applied AI: production systems, hard problems in agentic workflows and evaluation, and real customer impact. Good work-life balance. Leadership is more engaged and technically credible than I expected from a company this size — when I built a prototype, senior stakeholders engaged substantively and supported continued investment quickly. Competitive compensation, sharp colleagues, and a well-sized Austin office with a focused, collaborative feel.
Cons
Like any tech company, there is some legacy code to deal with which can cause friction. That said, eBay has made meaningful progress on modernizing the tech stack and has genuinely embraced the latest tools: AI development here uses current frameworks and infrastructure, not decade-old patterns. Large company coordination processes (security reviews, cross-team alignment) can slow things that could move faster, and vendor partnerships add some communication overhead. But the reach of what you build makes it worth the extra overhead.