eBay Software Developer reviews

1) No work life balance 2) Very poor management 3) Worse place for any honest and talented person to thrive - Use of proprietary technology is a pain to deal with. - People who do a lot of lip service get rewarded. - Unreasonable project timelines - Management believes in just getting their work done, it doesn't matter how badly one is breaking one or all of the software engineering principles. - Even a Sixth grader can do a Product managers job in most of the dev teams. Believe me as a developer you almost do everything - Management is looking to hire candidates who can where multiple hats but will pay you for wearing only one of them .... - Managers are not technically sound. They are not even qualified in terms of having a good related computer science and/or MBA degree. - Promotions are a joke. 4) I have seen amazing and very talented software professionals breaking down in terms of motivation. 5) It will be of no surprise if you happen to hear that one is verbally tortured and harassed by upper management and their cronies.

Legacy and proprietary garbage will ruin your day and your desire to live as you count the hours in your little chicken coop/cubicle. For goodness' sake, they still use ClearCase! Java based stack is proprietary with SOAP suck-vices ruling the roost. There are rumors of a better stack in the works but it also is proprietary. Also, svc control is non-existent and any random doofus can call your code without anyone the wiser until you get pulled into troubleshooting live issues overnight. Morons with their tiny little fiefdoms will block you at every turn. Worst of all are the tinpot QA people who will blame you first to ensure that their lack of testing ability doesn't come up when yet another live bug comes up. This place is where know-nothing failures and H1B indentured servants come to lose their soul. Stay the heck away unless you have no talent or desire to grow. Goodbye eNay, I made sure the door didn't hit me on my posterior on the way out.