Kind people but company is no longer organized - Anonymous employee eBay Employee Review

3.0
Feb 23, 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Friendly co workers & atmosphere

Cons

Kind people but recently has become a very disorganized organization. Ability to be promoted at any level is fully dependent on how hard your manager works for your benefit, eBay’s raise and promotion standards are an industry low both in YoY compensation and promotion timelines. Good short term experience, but detrimental long term eBay nickel and dimes you in regards to bonuses, salary, stock, raises and promotions — with undertones of a sneaky lack-of-transparency feeling/management atmosphere

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5.0
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Pros

Really good company you will go out as a leader

Cons

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5.0
Jul 9, 2026
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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.

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