eBay reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(5,670 total reviews)
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Jamie Iannone

80% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

eBay has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,670 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The eBay employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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6K reviews
3.0
May 7, 2016

Says it is a global company but totally US centric

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I worked with some great people at ebay. Talented, smart and extremely forward looking building the now for the future. Liked some senior leaders I worked with but pity several left the company last and this year.

Cons

People here love to start initiatives but have no stamina nor discipline to see through. HR is non existent aside from endlessly throwing out new initiatives without training people to be ready for these e.g. The new performance management system. There is disparity in treatment of employees. VPs and above get treated as special class of people e.g. Class of travel on flights. They are invited to special regular town halls with the CEO which is fine if there is more open sharing from the VPs and senior leaders. But people don't share so we feel like we are kept from really important business information and updates.

2.0
May 2, 2016

Plan on encountering the corp bureaucracy when you come here

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good people. at a team level tries to accommodate work life balance.

Cons

falls woefully short of helping employees with career advancement and/or work/life balance. Company is run by consultants

3.0
Jan 14, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

ebay is a stable company that has done good in the past and is now reaping the fruit. Work life balance is good, no doubt about it.

Cons

Things are too slow for most employee's taste. Me and most of my colleagues shared the same thought. Since the ebay-paypal split a lot of projects were cancelled and that severely effected employee moral. After the layoffs early 2015, lots of people left voluntarily. ebay is not growing as fast as most other companies in the bay area are. Here projects come and go in a fraction of a second. You would be working on something very hard and all of a sudden your boss tells you this project is scraped and start working on other maintenance work. There is no respect/say for individual contributors. ebay is loosing its battle with other big e-commerce giants and is finding tough to retain top talent for the same reason. After the split. no major initiative has been taken. Entire 2015 went in poor decision making and then remaking. Apart for ebay on mobile being in the forefront, I do not see any innovation or willingness to nurture latest technology and outshine. Senior management is very proud of the money that ebay makes, but the fact is that all that money comes irrespective of the new work that people do. This is a very stable and trusted platform that people have been using for nearly 20 years. Lastly, too much politics in senior management that treats employees as its pawns.

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