eBay : trim the company to focus on innovation, ship maintenance overseas - Senior Staff Software Engineer eBay Employee Review

2.0
30 Dec 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

eBay handles a lot of traffic and has a very innovative architecture. It also scales parallel software development. It's a good place to learn how to design a site for high traffic and high productivity in terms of a lot of feature development.

Cons

There is very little place for innovation. Management is averse to rocking the boat, and as a result, the business is stagnating.

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5.0
17 May 2026
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Pros

good culture friendly people and good benefits

Cons

leadership direction politics tenured individuals who do not change their ways of working

5.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
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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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