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      3.9

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (994 total reviews)
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      80% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

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      1.0
      Nov 21, 2012

      Poor management

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Great place for management trainees (sucks for developers). Most teams have no work or too much work. Big company. Get to meet all shades of characters.

      Cons

      In 14 years of IT I have never come across more egotistical management. Managers have no clue what they are talking about and you being a slave have no authority to question them. Top it off with really bad office politics. As one manager from Google once told me they have very little respect for developers with Ebay on their resume. You start each day thinking it could not get any worse and then the "smart" manager just raises the stupidity bar to a whole new level. I can barely control my laughter thinking about what all I have seen and heard. Need proof? Most of the good reviews on Glassdoor are all from managers (this is a management hell hole if you know what I am saying ;) ). This is the first time in my life that I have really felt the urge to write a review. A very well deserved review.

      3.0
      Nov 14, 2012

      Get the name on your resume, and then move on.

      Seller vetting/merchant fraud
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      Pros

      Good benefits, free drinks, casual dress code, recognizable name on your resume.

      Cons

      Very difficult to get promoted at the Draper office. Odd office politics. Promotions and recognition given on criteria that seemed to have nothing to do with tenure, work competence, or education. Focus on strict productivity requirements, rather than quality or innovation in work. Uneven competence in management.

      5.0
      Nov 12, 2012

      eBay is going through real technology turnaround

      Search product management
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      Pros

      I've been with eBay for quite some time now and can honestly tell that eBay has been through real technology turnaround in the last 3-4 years, it started by hiring new management team and it’s now affecting the individual contributor level. I grew up in this company’s product management org, and while only few years ago product management was about pitching for budget through ppt presentations and celebrating project approvals, now days it’s about collaborating with the engineering team, delivering a product, measuring success and celebrating our business impact. eBay marketplaces, and search in particular, is one of those places where you actually work on the core product and affect millions of users with every product change, we truly move the business needle and drive the company growth (check our stock price in the past 2 years!), and eventually, the true leaders of the organization, whether they are new employees or folks who’ve been around (like me) get recognized & compensated accordingly. The company is really focused on hiring great new talents; I can truly say the team becomes better every year.

      Cons

      Change is hard for many employees with the competition out there we sometime lose the leading talents. Like in any other big company, a lot of “low/average” performing employees are still around.

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