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      Great company if you want to work on tough technical problems, comes with tough politics too - Systems Architect eBay Employee Review

      2.0
      7 Mar 2009
      Systems architect
      Recommend
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      Business outlook

      Pros

      Technical Challenges are great and can only be found in half dozen companies. Lots of tough problems to work on from infrastructure to fraud technologies to optimization and AI.

      Cons

      Sheer amount of politics just to get a project booked is comparable to budget negotation up in Sacramento ! Too many politicians and not that many good engineers. Lots of MBAs and none of them are PMs ! Lots of clueless PMs

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      5.0
      13 Jan 2026
      Sr engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      People, decent benefits, focus on customer

      Cons

      Anything that is typical with a large enterprise company

      3.0
      20 Jun 2026
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      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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