Pros: Hackathons, quality awards, exposure to latest technology, changing trends, fast-paced.

Cons: No work-life balance. Seems like [I'm] tied to work all the time.

Pros: Brand Name, The domain knowledge and technical knowledge that one would gain with any large-scale e-commerce company.

Cons: eBay's home-grown technologies, processes, and testing methodologies are very outdated. Since eBay uses its own technologies, many developers lose track of what's going on in the software technology world. As a result, they find it harder to sell themselves outside of eBay and get stuck there for almost ever. You can find a lot of technically incompetent people in responsible top positions, making bad decisions all the time. These are the people who don't recognize and motivate the really few skilled people within. Innovations invite only jealousy rather than encouragement or appreciation. Treatment of contractors is especially very bad. Ideas from them are not encouraged. They never get to know how they have been evaluated. Managers hardly even speak to them.

Pros: culture, technology, colleagues, growth, visibility

Cons: There are no such cons, but you won't learn over time if you don't upgrade yourself.