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2.0
Aug 23, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Multinational Company. Very famous brand name. Big and bright offices. Security and badge system checks if intruders may enter into the building. Secure private parking space, despite being too small in number. Gym room. Big atrium, good size canteen (but you have to pay). Training and mentoring support. Free health insurance (worth around 700 Euro/year). Salary little bit higher than average customer service or similar role, so it is good.

Cons

I was stuck in the same basic role forever. No opportunity to make a career, while other colleagues started after me got a promotion. In my team, the way of promoting/ helping somebosy's career was mainly based on personal opinion, more than professional opinion. Customer policies were not the same if applied by me or by a team leader's friend: applying the same action, I was wrong but the other colleague was right because backed up by the team leader ready to give a justification. The same applied to performance (ie. number of emails handled per hours or quality score). On overall was a nice place but unfortunately ruined by team leaders/management how are not applying professional decisions.

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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.

3.0
Jun 20, 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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