Generally good product management experience - Product Manager eBay Employee Review

4.0
Jan 10, 2022
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Pros

Some things I like about being a product manager at eBay: - Culture: I generally like the culture; Collaborative, mean people are discouraged, I believe the leadership genuinely wants to help buyers and sellers; Lots of people have been here for many years; Global brand - Comp: Base salary is pretty good; RSUs are low compared to other companies (although stock price doubled); 5 year sabbatical is cool - Working / locations has gotten very flexible during the pandemic...nice - Trend towards managed verticals (sneakers, collectibles, motors, handbags, etc) is good - People who work for the local biz unit (i.e. UK, North America) report high job satisfaction and seem to have a good quality of life - Short term biz outlook: Good, lots of 'found money' from advertising and managed payments

Cons

Some things I don't like: - Shipping code: OMG things move so slowly; Lots of old legacy code - Operations: This company needs a COO to fix things; API dev sandbox doesn't work; Quarterly planning bureaucracy is ridiculous; Small changes require way too much discussion - Very poor diversity: Staff isn't representative of our buyers and sellers; There seems to be a huge bias in product and eng towards hiring people from India (usually by managers who are from India) - Many of the eng and product team don't use eBay and therefore don't understand customer needs - People who work in product and eng report lower job satisfaction (not terrible, but lower than local biz unit) indicative of work load + pain in shipping code - Product mgr turnover was high in 2021; Lots of people I know left - Long term biz outlook: We need more buyers...losing the youth market

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

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.

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