eBay

• Good benefits (4% 401k match, paid maternity/paternity leave, tuition assistance, ride sharing reimbursement, work from home).
• Ok pay (Average base salary, 10% annual bonus, stocks).
• Work-life balance.
• Most people are very helpful and easy to work with.

• Boring projects, menial tasks, little freedom, too many processes.

Don’t let the location trick you; eBay is not a Silicon Valley company. This is a horrible place to work at as a passionate developer who wants to build and ship things.

If you chose to be a developer because coding is your passion, you’ll absolutely hate this place. But you’ll love it if you care most about retirement and benefits.

• There is no diversity in engineering teams; 90% percent of people are from the same country. The company is known as an H1-B shop.

People say yes to everything because almost everyone’s life literally depends on eBay – they have to stay at the company for 8+ years to get their residency.

• Old tech stack. Some teams adopted a newer tech stack, but they still use eBay's own front-end framework for some reason (Marko).

It’s fun to work with, but no one will recognize it on your resume. If you are a full-stack or front-end developer, this is worrying.

• Risk-averse, slow-moving, bureaucratic.

• If you want to leave before the one-year mark, they will ask you to pay the full amount of the sign-on bonus, including taxes.

• Engineering teams need more diversity.