Business is short-sighted and devotes insufficient resources to developing a robust, maintainable product - Operations Engineer eBay Employee Review

4.0
5 Jun 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Usually great communication between different teams within operations, much better than a few yeras ago. Flexible hours, most employees allowed to WFH 1+ days a week.

Cons

Senior management rarely present, shows almost no concern for rank and file workers or their projects. Product development doesn't understand operations very well. When enhancements are requested, PD will commit to delivering the enhancements, then never follow through. All PD work is purely business driven. This is understandable for a startup, but not for an established company of this size. It is only by pure luck that we haven't suffered more outages as a result of PD's & Business not spending more time on implementing best practices in regards to maintainability of PD's products. QA is also chronically underfunded.

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5.0
28 Apr 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Pay and beneifts and the overall work experience

Cons

None at this time it’s been great

3.0
20 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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