eBay reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(5,670 total reviews)
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Jamie Iannone

80% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

eBay has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,670 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The eBay employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Oct 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are pleasant enough. Pay satisfactory. Nice campus. Convenient location. Managers tend to be a bit distant from lower-level workers, but not abusive; just aloof. Recent changes have seemed to confuse and dishearten some managers. Offers of better ways to get things done are usually listened to, but seldom acted upon. There are definite cliques of workers who have been employed for longer periods, but the individuals in the cliques are nice when they are operating solo. The pay is ok, and requests for time-off are never refused. All things considered, if I had not been riffed, I would have stayed at least another year.

Cons

EBAY gives no opportunity for customer service workers to actually "help" anybody. Knowing that customers are almost never staisfied with outcomes is demoralizing.

1.0
Oct 10, 2008

No Operating Skill at The Top

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay, a recognized name and bagels on Wednesdays. The company still has some great smart people after the latest cuts.

Cons

Poor leadership at the top and inconsistent strategy. Highly political environment. Strategies and structures change often and there is no understanding of what it might take to operate differently. A large number of consultants working on all kinds of things adds to the politics, strategy shifts and meetings.

3.0
Oct 10, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Depending on the team, work/life balance can be fairly good.

Cons

Bureaucracy and politics - as in any other large company. You need to expect some resistance whenever you try to change any process. Things move slowly and you need to be very patience and very diplomatic. You need to be a great negotiator in order to get any brilliant idea you may have across. Promotions are granted as if you were in the military: it doesn't matter what you did - you need to patiently wait for your turn.

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