eBay reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,667 total reviews)
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Jamie Iannone

79% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

eBay has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,667 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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2.0
Sep 10, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Hmmm, management is good about accommodating time off when needed and....and, that's it.

Cons

eBay is pure chaos every day. Upper management is constantly changing which means regular re-orgs. We're a horizontal org, then a vertical one, and back and forth. We work in centralized teams, then six months later we're decentralized. Employees don't feel confident that the initiative they're working on today will be around next month or even next week. A large portion of dev and qa are outsourced to India and China which makes for a very long work day and employees don't score extra points for doing con calls at 9PM several nights a week as a result. Management does however, point out every misstep and task that was missed, and generally beats you down until you're questioning your own abilities. The work to employee ratio is unrealistic, yet management doesn't recognize that, they only seem to drive home how employees are under-delivering. Salaries are about 10% less than other companies. Management is extremely stingy in handing out promotions for anyone under a Director level.

1.0
Apr 15, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Good benefits (4% 401k match, paid maternity/paternity leave, tuition assistance, ride sharing reimbursement, work from home) - Ok pay (Average base salary, 10% annual bonus, stocks) - Work-life balance - Most people are very helpful and easy to work with

Cons

- Boring projects, menial tasks, little freedom, too many processes. Don’t let the location trick you, eBay is not a Silicon Valley company - this is a horrible place to work at as a passionate developer who want to build and ship things. If you chose to be a developer because coding is your passion, you’ll absolutely hate this place. But you’ll love it if you care most about retirement and benefits. - There is no diversity in engineering teams, 90% percent of people are from the same country. Company is known as an H1-B shop. People say yes to everything, because almost everyone’s life literally depends on eBay - they have to stay at the company for 8+ years to get their residency. - Old tech stack. Some teams adopted newer tech stack but they still use eBay's own front end framework for some reason (Marko). It’s fun to work with, but no one will recognize it on your resume. If you are a full stack or front end developer this is worrying. - Risk-averse, slow moving, bureaucratic - If you want to leave before the one year mark they will ask you to pay the full amount of sign-on bonus including taxes.

1.0
Mar 7, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Starting pay rate is impressive to the lower class people they hire now

Cons

They claim to be about diversity and inclusion but they only mean that for the bottom of the barrel people they've hired to fill seats on the call center floor. There is no diversity in management or on the second floor, where higher pay grades exist. When you speak up for yourself or expose the injustices, like extremely inappropriate inter-office affairs and relationships, they will terminate you and blackball you in the tech industry.

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