eBay

Nice work-life balance.

Decent benefits and pay.

Company full of Indians, so if you are Indian, you won't feel like you are outside India. In fact, right now, people are doing a lot of WFH, studying for interviews so that they can get out of eBay ASAP.

Don't be fooled by fake reviews posted by HRs. Look deeper, and you will find some really insightful reviews. Unfortunately, I think that's what the HRs are paid for sometimes.

Good for people who can build trendy stuff for demos, just so that their managers can attract the attention of others and senior execs and get promoted during the performance evaluation period.

It's sad to see that managers are considered higher in ranks than software engineers. So, in the end, even when software engineers know the right thing, they are forced to do what their managers want.

Some managers even micromanage your day, like asking your status two to three times in a day, checking on your code commits on a daily basis, and sometimes even being rude by asking what you did today at the end of the day.

There's too much technical debt, and none of the managers are interested in working towards clearing that mess, meaning it will keep getting bigger and bigger.

I have also seen some managers reviewing the code of architects and giving feedback as if they were peer reviews, even though they are not the other person whom the architect had worked with directly at the code level. Thus, the process of getting code through all the way to production takes several weeks to two to three months.

Please let the engineers drive the company and not the managers, otherwise the company will be a dead place for engineers.