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MTS1 Software Engineer

MTS1 Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at eBay for 4 years
October 5, 2013
Austin, Texas
4.0
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Pros

Good perks, good people, and easy access to work from North Austin. Online commerce is the place to be today; eBay is in the middle of making huge strides.

Cons

Marketplace has a lot of baggage if you like to code. Old platforms, everything is proprietary. You will get to maintain old code on an old platform, and it's frustrating at times.

San Jose and Seattle get all the good work. Austin gets all the leftovers. There's not enough commitment from management to grow the Austin site.

Way too many folks with H1B.

Advice to Management

Jon Danahue is a superhero, an awesome leader for eBay, no doubt.

  1. Grow the Austin site; there is way too much talent here.
  2. Remove the tools and platform teams; there are enough resources in open source these days to reinvent and create overheads on those open source technologies by hiring tools and platform engineers.
  3. Simplify and increase your cycle times to move features to the site.

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