Cool company to work with - Senior Software Engineer eBay Employee Review

5.0
5 Sept 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Basketbal -Foosbal -Volleybal -Bagel Wed -Free milk and cornflakes -Free fruits -Good coffee -High end developer machines & Apple laptops -Cheap starbucks on campus -Great gym -Lot of giveaways like ipad and gadgets on fun events -Cool culture. You can practically wear anything. -Outdoor cafeteria with indian/chinese/american food -Less work and option to do Work from home on occasional basis -Hackathons on campus -Ideas gets attention and consideration quickly

Cons

- Old technology stack but moving towards new ones - People are less energetic and entuastic. Laid back atomsphere. - over all less entuaism of doing something new

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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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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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