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      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

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      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
      2.0
      Oct 25, 2009

      Nice campus, better get used to the view.

      Staff software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      * Nice gym, though crowded at times * Free coffee. * Competitive, though not compelling, benefits * There are some interesting projects going on

      Cons

      * Sub-par management. Knee jerk reactions are par for the course. * Poor vision and leadership from executives * Work life balance is poor for engineers; due to unreasonable schedules, management that doesn't fight for their employees, offshoring of key functions, and a sweatshop culture * Very inefficient development processes

      2.0
      May 18, 2009

      Senior Management Has Little/No Clue!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      No matter what it's become, eBay is still the place the pioneered ecommerce. There's something to be said for that - and to the extent that you can squeeze some learning out of the heritage of the place it's a good place to be.

      Cons

      Senior Management (and I mean the TOP senior management) has no clue what they're doing. They don't actually use the site, and spend all of their time looking at data about OTHER PEOPLE who use the site. They then try to draw conclusions based on their review of that data, but since they have no visceral experience with the site their conclusions are often incorrect in subtle ways that doom whatever initiative they're proposing. They then try to remedy this situation by looking at even more data, and the cycle continues. John Donahoe has never RUN a real company (consulting doesn't count), and it all starts with him.

      3.0
      Mar 14, 2009

      eBay needs to seriously turnaround or it will sink.

      Pr manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The people, the culture, the food, the celebrations. It's a fun place at the beginning but the company doesn't care about career advancement so people move after a while. Lots of politics so that is not good, especially tough times like these. Customers are genuinely trying to help the company but upper management doesn't listen to their advice. And the whole NPR crap score doesn't do much to help us.

      Cons

      upper management is lost, always talking about amazon, copying amazon, can't find the right Turnaround formula to actually turnaround, desperate to be at the top again.

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