few words about ebay - Engineering Manager eBay Employee Review

4.0
26 Jan 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

great engineers to learn from, technical challenges because of huge web traffic

Cons

lack of true leaders in senior management; bloated management hierarchy; a lot of senior management is very occupied with their own career and their compensation and seems ignoring their job: take care of the company and people they are supposed to manage; lack of strategic vision; lack of interest from top level management to technology; inability of the top management to leverage one of the biggest assets the company has: good skillful people who built the eBay site.

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5.0
13 Jan 2026
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Pros

People, decent benefits, focus on customer

Cons

Anything that is typical with a large enterprise company

3.0
20 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Relaxing culture. family first. Stock performance is generally good for the recent two years and huge benefit if you're eligible for ESPP. Stable product with large customer base means you get opportunity to work on project with real impact.

Cons

1. Blind push for AI and leadership expect unrealistic efficiency improvement 2. Layoff every year in Feb (2024, 2025, 2026) and sometimes can feel the tension in team 3. Legacy tech stack with isolated and fragile infrastructure. Developer friction is a real pain. You get random infra down every once a while and internal support becomes even worse since they started offshoring to LCOL area in 2025. 4. Hiring freeze in San Jose... just expect more layoff coming up + frequent meetings at night / early morning across regions

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