Avantages
Well, there's lots of good reasons to work at eBay. Primarily, the culture is open and inviting. Compensation is average. People seem to be of decent caliber both technically and personally. I wouldn't say that it's the best place I've ever worked, but I wouldn't think that it would be the worst either. I guess average is the main adjective to use. The Skype acquisition brought a lot of promise, but we haven't seen a huge payoff.
Inconvénients
I think that some people are just there to receive a paycheck, but hey, it is called work for a reason. There are some, let's say "interesting" engineers personality-wise, but I think that that is the case at just about every Silicon Valley company. I think that the acquisitions could have been better utilized... Skype for example. Food is decent around the San Jose campus near Hamilton Ave, but is pretty much just general suburbia.