Interviewing with them right now. Looking to leave intuit due to potential layoffs in the future. What is it like at Ebay right now for software engineers? Looks like there was a layoff early this year, are employees expecting anymore? From talking to interviewers I got the impression that ebay has a lot of reorgs. I value stability and work life balance, can I expect to get that at ebay? Some reviews seem to suggest good WLB some seem to suggest the opposite. I am not able to build a clear picture. Interviewing for Sr swe IC, no offer numbers since I haven't completed the process yet. But so far the interviews have gone well. Loc is San Jose.
In THIS economy!?!
As an infrequent seller on eBay, it absolutely shafts its sellers and the selling user base hates eBay. Basically I think most of us are just waiting for something better to come along. I’d let this ship sink tbh
What marketplace treats sellers better?
> waiting for something better to come along
It is like jumping to another sinking ship.
What is not sinking these days?
Some are sinking faster than others lol
lol.. I feel like every company is sinking ..
BIG NO. I was there for more than 6 yrs and there were constant fear of layoffs ever since I joined. There were about 4-5 layoffs during the time I was there and finally became a victim beginning of the year. It’s a sinking ship, management is clueless on the direction.
Thanks for that information, I did hear that ebay has a history of layoffs but also the interviewers I met had long tenures so I was wondering about that.
Yes the folks who stay there for long mostly would have played politics very well. Btw I’m with Intuit as CW right now. Not sure what makes you feel insecure as I thought the company is doing well. The morale is way better compared to ebay.
If you are looking for layoff safety don’t join. There are layoffs every year. Just in this week entire qe departments were cut. February is usually when more layoffs hit (reviews are completed in feb)
NO, absolutely not! I worked for eBay for 3 years and I can tell you leaving my previous job and joining eBay was one of the worst decisions I ever made! You will be working in 3 different time zones (meetings starts at 7 AM (Europe) and can go all the way to 10 pm (India and China)) almost every day, and your WLB will be sh...t!! eBay used to be a descent employer but many good leaders and managers left the company. I am so glad I left that toxic environment before it gets too late.
I’ve never heard of anyone at eBay with this experience. I would not say this is common at eBay.
Good you left ebay, Microsoft. You should know by now there is no such single experience that is in every company. It depends team to team and by org to org. You cannot generalize. Did you even try to check internally before going out?
years at Intuit?
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