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Pay and benefits: good. Working conditions: not so good

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at eBay for 9 years
November 1, 2021
San Jose, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

They have top-notch benefits and pay.

Cons

First, under no circumstances work here if you are in QA. You are not even a human being if you are in QA.

The whole company looks down on QA as some sort of second-class citizen that they want to get rid of as soon as possible, and the executives will say it to your face if they don't know you're in QA.

It's a bad place for development, too.

They have a bunch of proprietary technologies they use, and learning those is a gigantic waste of time.

First, you're learning to use badly written code, poorly designed user interfaces, and toolsets that can only be described as antediluvian.

It's madness.

The technologies you are learning to work with are used by no other company in the world because it's proprietary.

When I was there, they had their own version of cloud services for internal use. It was terrible, and you need to be using an industry-standard platform like AWS or Azure if you want career growth outside eBay.

It is a great place to be a manager.

Managers are given a whole different level of treatment than regular employees, and they generally don't get laid off in the rounds of layoffs that occur once or twice a year.

Advice to Management

Every technology and tool that is proprietary and not absolutely specific to eBay's business, throw out and replace with industry-standard tools and code. If you don't think QA people are worth less than nothing and you think that any of them are valuable employees, you've consistently done the opposite to the point where eBay is notorious for being abusive to QA staff.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
1.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
2.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
1.0

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