No idea how there are so many glowing reviews on here. I knew very few people who were actually happy at eBay and even those who were could see the dysfunction surrounding them.
Really bad senior management. The company’s “vision” is overly broad, making it meaningless. No one wants to rock the boat so the difficult conversations needed to turn the business around are not taking place.
Culture of favoritism. Promotions are based on who likes you enough to fight for you not your actual merit as an employee. It is definitely a boys club with lots of men who do not treat women with the same level of respect as their male counterparts. If you even bother going to HR about unfair treatment, you will end up worse off than before.
Very political. People don’t hold business partners accountable because they don’t want to get negative feedback from them, which would hurt their chances of being promoted. You have people and teams fighting over who gets credit for work. It can be a huge challenge to get people to share information that you need to do your job.
Way too many consultants. eBay pays big money to have consultants (and the Strategy team), who don’t understand the business, make pretty decks. The company needs to execute well not sit around talking about shinny ideas that don’t deliver.
