LayOff - Project Manager eBay Employee Review

1.0
May 17, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I had the honor to work for eBay quite some time. Have seen up's and downs in the company. We had good leadership in the past

Cons

The current leadership at eBay is not optimal. Not at the top and especially not in the mid levels. Managers do not really care about their teams, In my personal experience, the manager lied to us all the time. We don't know if it was always on purpose or not. Our leadership team (Director and Sen. Director) wouldn't make it any other company. Feedback from colleagues was always bad but the lying and making up tings was the worst and very disappointing. These are the most recent experiences I have personally made. When eBay had to let go people in January this year,, they have explained it that the cost was growing faster than the revenue. Which makes sense and would be understandable. On the other hand eBay is now re-hiring lots of the vacant positions for much higher salaries. Another bad flavor I have experienced from the recent events at eBay is that it seems that they mostly fired non Indian people. No matter what the performance was.

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5.0
Jul 9, 2026
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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.

3.0
Jun 20, 2026
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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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