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A company with amazing potential; it just needs to get its act together from a quality and architecture perspective.

Engineering Manager
Current Employee
Has worked at eBay for less than 1 year
September 25, 2008
San Jose, California
4.0
RecommendsDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Solid company, excellent staff, good liquidity, and generally a "fun" place to work. The company still has some perks (e.g., free snacks and soda).

The company does provide a nice benefit package with all of the normal perks (e.g., 401k match, health, dental, life, and AD&D insurance).

Cons

Stock options are a significant portion of your overall compensation package, and the recent stock performance is bad.

Morale is down due to the recent Barron's article around potential layoffs.

Process and cost control are pretty limited.

There are still a lot of managers and directors who are more interested in personal dynasty building versus overall company performance.

Advice to Management

Desperately need to focus on Marketplaces and PayPal site quality. New products are counter-valuable if the basic site and data structure quality is degraded. I feel that our overall site quality was better in 2004 than it is now.

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