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Horrible for engineers

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at eBay for less than 1 year
September 11, 2008
Campbell, California
1.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

There really aren't any, unless you have a family and like being the one-eyed man in the land of the blind. Also, if you get in good with your manager, it's very easy to slip between the cracks and slack off.

Cons

Hugely political, and managers are not very aware of who the good coders in the group are. Also, it's predominantly a marketing organization, so developers get stepped on. Also, it's heavily process-oriented, but now we're trying to become more "agile". So now we have an "agile waterfall", which is just an awful, awful idea. It just means that product managers can slack off far more.

Advice to Management

Fire all the PMs and about 80% of the developers.

Start attracting real talent.

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