eBay reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(5,667 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 5,667 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
Dec 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Used to be a great place, with alot of opportunity, and there was good culture, they rewarded us, we got free bagels one day a week, free soda's and games, we get tshirts and can earn eBay swag, all the employees in the building are typically fun and smiley, happy to be there. There's alot of involvement over the holidays and throughout the year in different organizations. It's a casual environment and the immediate managers are completely great, on your level and willing to work with you on anything. We have coaches that help guide our careers and help us grow. There's also great benefits, like I've not experienced anywhere else.

Cons

Our entire job performance is now based on customer reviews, and it doesn't matter if it was a policy you didnt write, or if the review was actually for another member who took the call and passed it to you, its then yours. Every day, I come into a job, that is looking more and more like other places I've worked. Moral is low, the excitement to excel has ceased. You come into work and you're confronted with what you did wrong, or a situation a member is upset about. You then get the chance to justify it or explain the situation, but ultimately, its going to be the cost of your bonuses. You and your team, get reviewed together too, so if one person is doing poorly, its everyone who suffers. Furthermore, they fish for feedback from members by sending emails to ask for them to respond, so if someone had a call with an agent and it went poorly, and then we email about their experience and they say it was horrible, and you get that email to respond too, then their experience is then attached to YOU, not the person who took the call. The whole thing is really unfair and unethical. It doesn't give a good glimpse of an agents actual work.

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eBay Response
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Thank you for your honest feedback. Our mission and global culture are extremely important to us. We strive to be a supportive place with open communication and transparency, where people can make a meaningful impact. We are always looking for ways to improve employee experience and would like you to know that your feedback has been heard. We also appreciate your input for management consideration.
3.0
Jun 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits and an initial fun atmosphere. Coworkers are generally good caliber. Growth and advancement opportunities available. Nice new building which includes a nice cafeteria with reasonably priced and tasty offerings.

Cons

Management at all levels are too focused on share price and not on the employees or really even the clients that drive the most business. Product innovation came to a screeching halt and yet the expectation for 30% + growth was a metric given and used for performance evaluation. Focus is too buyer centric and buyer fraud abounds and is ignored. Sellers are left without common sense options to deal with dishonest buyers. News flash Pierre and Devin - People are No longer basically good when making online purchases. eBay employees including managers have No power to facilitate change or do the right thing for a seller that has been financially taken advantage of by a dishonest buyer. The policy makers are out of step with what really goes on with transactions. To be a powerless drone even at a management level is stressful, negative and unfulfilling. I didn't realize how truly bad it was until I stepped away from the eBay machine and kool-aid and looked in. I would Never go back to work for them.

2.0
Nov 12, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

eBay Inc has great benefits including medical, vision, dental, and flex spending; an onsite gym and trainer, cafeteria, PTO, sabbaticals every 5 years. The corporation really tries to take care of employees.

Cons

The facility in Draper, Utah is poorly run and managed. Promotions are rarely based on merit, but if you're liked. In my 8 years there I knew 5 or fewer good supervisors. For the most part they are terrible, have different interpretations of the policies and adhere to them differently. If a supervisor doesn't like you they will watch you like a hawk until they have enough to get you fired. (Meanwhile they are almost never fired or demoted for poor performance.) The only way to get ahead there is to kiss up and hope you're well liked. The morale in many departments is very low and people are frustrated but nothing changes. Many people stick around due to great benefits and OK pay even though they are miserable. eBay's great benefits make it hard for people to feasibly leave. Promotions are very hard to come by unless you take a specific path (even then it's difficult). If you don't have a desire to become a coach, supervisor, manager, you may be out of luck. eBay has tons of cool jobs, but it's nearly impossible to get to those without going becoming a supervisor first. Many people don't want to become supervisors but have great skills in other areas, so they're held back because there's no path for them to get promoted.

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