eBay: Trim the company to focus on innovation, ship maintenance overseas
eBay: Trim the company to focus on innovation, ship maintenance overseas
eBay handles a lot of traffic and has a very innovative architecture. It also scales parallel software development. It's a good place to learn how to design a site for high traffic and high productivity in terms of a lot of feature development.
There is very little place for innovation. Management is averse to rocking the boat, and as a result, the business is stagnating.
There is little new development. It's mainly maintenance. You don't need highly-qualified engineers for those tasks.
Ship maintenance overseas, trim down product development to those tasks that are critical for business development. I mentioned this to the CTO about 3 years ago.
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San Jose, California, United StatesApril 1, 2010I was contacted by a recruiter. After a few days, I had a phone screen and then an onsite interview. The interview went fine. I was interviewing after a long time and as such was not well prepared. Overall experience was fine, and I guess my 1:1 in
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San Jose, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2010I had a phone interview first, then was called over for an on-site interview with the team. I interviewed with 5 people. The questions were mostly related to my background and what they were looking for in a candidate, such as SOA and security. There
