Ebay search is one of the worst places I have worked at in past 6-7 years - Senior Software Engineer eBay Employee Review

1.0
28 Mar 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Pros Generally regarded within ebay as one of the better teams to work for. Good equipment.

Cons

Lack of quality projects to work on. Need to brown nose the architects in order to work on anything significant. Management is new to the company and runs the team like their personal fiefdom. Constant re-prioritization due to missed deadlines and lack of a roadmap. Management are more focussed on their pet projects and there is a good chance you might have to work on one of these. The team maintains a revolving door for almost all engineering positions except one or two positions. The people occupying these positions tend to call the shots ripping/re-factoring code written by others and acting as almighty gatekeepers to the codebase. Management does not seem to respect employees.

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5.0
17 May 2026
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Pros

good culture friendly people and good benefits

Cons

leadership direction politics tenured individuals who do not change their ways of working

5.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good work, lots of AI experiments, AI innovation, latest tech stack, Co-workers are very co-operative and helpful. Most AI tools are still unlimited.

Cons

Some teams are over-working due to smaller teams as a result of recent layoffs. Office perks (like catered food, snacks) are dwindling every quarter even though company wants every employee to be 3 days a week in office. Company wants 80 percent code to be generated by AI but no clear guideline how to achieve that.

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