No work life balance - Product Manager eBay Employee Review

2.0
Sep 20, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Very collaborative culture, people help each other

Cons

I joined after eBay started working remotely and onboarding was very tough and unorganized. Teams in San Jose work with teams in Shanghai, and everyone work until late evening. Product requests are hard to stremline because there's no direction from management.

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eBay Response
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Thanks for your review. We commend you for joining the company during COVID19 - it's definitely not easy to deal with that amount of change during a pandemic. Sorry to hear about the time zone difficulties that you experienced. If you want to dive deeper into product requests, send an email to glassdoorfeedback@ebay.com.

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