Huge opportunity but execution difficulties abound - Director, Product Management eBay Employee Review

2.0
14 Jan 2016
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Pros

- Incredibly challenging problems across data science and customer experience. - Fantastic lateral mobility throughout the organization - Recent signs of life in HR policy. Very inclusive company across race and sexual orientation. - Real opportunity to change people's lives for the better. Buyers love us and sellers need us.

Cons

- Lack of vision and strategy at the executive level down. - Boil the ocean approach to 'big bet' efforts every year - Short institutional memory (we make the same mistakes over and over again) - Not a tech driven company - poor decision making especially among the ranks of senior leadership. - In recent years, constant reorgs and attrition throughout the ranks. - Very political across product teams.

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Cons

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5.0
27 May 2026
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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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