Pros and cons - Customer Service Representative eBay Employee Review

3.0
18 Dec 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Can take same day pto 2. VTO 3. Great company benefits 4. Quarterly bonuses 5. management that actually care about you

Cons

1. Working with different departments (other reps purposely disconnect calls 2. Customer Service determines your bonuses and raises. I listed this as a con because a customer will give you a bad score simply because they don't agree with company policy 3. eBay has made receive changes to their company policy that has made it extremely difficult to customers to sell or get paid on eBay. The changes were made when I was employed there and it made it extremely difficult to work there because almost every customer I spoke with was upset. They are losing business left and right because of these changes. Theses changes also makes it easy for buyers to scam the sellers with their embg/dispute policies. There are groups, blogs about this.

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5.0
17 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good culture friendly people and good benefits

Cons

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

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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