Good for the unambitious - Avis employé Software Engineer eBay

3,0
23 juill. 2015
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Avantages

Really good work/life balance If you want to work somewhere from 10 to 5, have frequent days off, don't need to learn anything new, and complete 2 things in an entire year, this is the place for you.

Inconvénients

Tech stack is atrocious Politics of a large company Lack of credibility of higher management Legacy Java stack with domain specific reinventions of open source libraries that are worse in every way. Attempts to improve the stack get lip service but no competent infrastructure support. There is no serious movement to update the stack and fix things. New libraries and wrappers are written to interface with broken and disfunctional legacy systems so even using the new stack doesn't actually increase code productivity. Almost all of the smart engineers have left or are leaving so you won't get significant mentorship. As a junior engineer I am actually reverse mentoring senior engineers, architecting the entire project, and implementing a supermajority of everything on my project! Also promotions and wages aren't matching what startups are offering to pay now. Due to constant reorgs promotions are hard to come by while less qualified individuals get hired at higher ranks due to age. Something which would take you 2 days to complete takes 2+months at ebay due to the stack and process.

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5,0
17 mai 2026
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Avantages

good culture friendly people and good benefits

Inconvénients

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

3,0
20 juin 2026
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Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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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