eBay

It used to be a great place to work, where a small team had a big impact. Lots of challenging problems to solve and opportunity to impact millions of users.

Over time, too much politics has crept in. A lot of new management from Microsoft/Yahoo (trend started late 2011/2012).

• Follow the Agile process to death! Daily standup meetings, and PjMs plan each step of the agile process. This takes the fun out of coding.
• Has become too political; people are pushing their own agendas.
• Too much churn in management; priorities keep shifting.
• Incompetent middle management layer.
• Specially avoid the backend and ranking teams; too much redundant work is being done.
• Most teams are just doing rewrites that last multiple years, with not much scope for creativity.
• Typical projects last ~6-8 months and even multiple years and are usually redundant by the time they are done.
• Work/life balance sucks.
• Read your contract carefully; they can fire you at will anytime.
• It's common practice to get rid of old-timers every few years.