Provide direction, listen to the front line staff and keep employees in their role longer than a month! - Product Manager eBay Employee Review

3.0
Oct 25, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The image and respect of the company. The people that work there. The sense of team work. The expand of the company; travelling to other countries. The opportunities that use to exist. The pay and compensation, the ability to expense dinner's and enjoy each other's company. The sense of working on something unique where you have input into the companies future. Different industry within the local area and is not a telecom industry. Something I once believed in and really wanted to come into work each day. Once Meg left it all went downhill from there. Very sad to see something you believed in go downhill.

Cons

Promotions are not equitable. People are just assigned to roles instead of applying. No direction at all from senior management and they have brought in incompetent leaders who are new to the industry and do not know what they are talking about and are not really intrested in you, your skills or where the department has come from. Just there own thoughts on where it should go.

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5.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Challenging work, great company culture. There is something genuinely motivating about building for a brand that everyone knows and uses: the scale and real-world stakes make the work feel meaningful. The AI work specifically is at the frontier of applied AI: production systems, hard problems in agentic workflows and evaluation, and real customer impact. Good work-life balance. Leadership is more engaged and technically credible than I expected from a company this size — when I built a prototype, senior stakeholders engaged substantively and supported continued investment quickly. Competitive compensation, sharp colleagues, and a well-sized Austin office with a focused, collaborative feel.

Cons

Like any tech company, there is some legacy code to deal with which can cause friction. That said, eBay has made meaningful progress on modernizing the tech stack and has genuinely embraced the latest tools: AI development here uses current frameworks and infrastructure, not decade-old patterns. Large company coordination processes (security reviews, cross-team alignment) can slow things that could move faster, and vendor partnerships add some communication overhead. But the reach of what you build makes it worth the extra overhead.

3.0
Jun 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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