High Impact but pulled back by poor leadership - Member Of Technical Staff eBay Employee Review

3.0
1 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

High Impact work. You can make a big impact to the company bottom line through your work.

Cons

Most of the senior leadership in engineering (CPT) is non technical. The environment they create is highly political and promotes a toxic work culture. The CEO is blissfully unaware of how poor his choice of senior management is.

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Pros

Flexible and intuitive to use

Cons

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3.0
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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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