Sr. Management needs to get in touch with their customers. - Senior Product Manager eBay Employee Review

2.0
15 Dec 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and benefits, flexible work schedule are some of the reasons to work for this company. The overall environment of the other employees and staff is great as well. In many ways everyone is at the same level, though it is not the level that most of them want to be at. There are many strong and enthusiastic leaders but they are stifled by an oppressive leadership style form the top. The cubicles are filled with many trinkets that reflect the individual styles and interests of the many workers. There is a great deal if individuality tolerated within the organization.

Cons

Leaders micromanage and are clueless. They have no experience with the product and services of their company. Everything is judged by one comity and then then next to get anything done. Every innovative idea is so watered down in the many steps and groups it has to appease that by the time it is nearly finished it is unrecognizable and lacking any real innovation is started with. Top leadership ignores the input from staff members on the front lines wit the customers. It is quite degrading to be told over and over again by top management that our largest and most successful customers don't have any idea what the eBay marketplace needs.

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Pros

good culture friendly people and good benefits

Cons

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5.0
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Pros

Good work, lots of AI experiments, AI innovation, latest tech stack, Co-workers are very co-operative and helpful. Most AI tools are still unlimited.

Cons

Some teams are over-working due to smaller teams as a result of recent layoffs. Office perks (like catered food, snacks) are dwindling every quarter even though company wants every employee to be 3 days a week in office. Company wants 80 percent code to be generated by AI but no clear guideline how to achieve that.

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