Good People, Bad Management
Good People, Bad Management
Nice folks among the rank and file, competitive benefits.
Brand confusion. Entrenched old-guard middle/upper engineering management is concerned only with notching quick (and questionable) business wins & avoiding risk by surrounding themselves with yes-people. There is no interest in cultivating talent or challenging the status quo.
Figure out what eBay is and what it is not.
Remove the old engineering guard which put eBay in such dire technological straits in the first place.
Also, figure out how to break the cadence of running layoffs every couple of quarters.
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Director of Engineering
Received an interview after submitting my resume through an employee referral. Had a phone screen with a hiring executive who asked standard experience questions. A follow-up phone screen with an architect in the group initially went well, but then
Software Engineer
The details are fuzzy, but it had to do with some data manipulation using HashMaps, Comparator, etc. I was just given a question prompt and then asked to manipulate the data. I think to filter some records. I was expecting LeetCode, so I wasn't as
Senior Software Engineer
Waste of time. Told me to study LeetCode. The interview was nothing like LeetCode. They expected me to write a service in 30 minutes. The interviewer wasn’t professional. They asked weird questions. I would not recommend wasting time here.
Director of Engineering
San Jose, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2012Received an interview after submitting my resume through an employee referral. Had a phone screen with a hiring executive who asked standard experience questions. A follow-up phone screen with an architect in the group initially went well, but then
Software Engineer
Dublin, Leinster, IrelandNovember 10, 2025The details are fuzzy, but it had to do with some data manipulation using HashMaps, Comparator, etc. I was just given a question prompt and then asked to manipulate the data. I think to filter some records. I was expecting LeetCode, so I wasn't as
Senior Software Engineer
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaNovember 7, 2025Waste of time. Told me to study LeetCode. The interview was nothing like LeetCode. They expected me to write a service in 30 minutes. The interviewer wasn’t professional. They asked weird questions. I would not recommend wasting time here.
