eBay

Free gym. Lots of in-house parties. Big campus. eBay is an ageless idea. You learn a lot in terms of business, domain, and collaborating with lots of other teams.

1. No work-life balance.
2. Very poor management.
3. Worse place for any honest and talented person to thrive:
   • Use of proprietary technology is a pain to deal with.
   • People who do a lot of lip service get rewarded.
   • Unreasonable project timelines.
   • Management believes in just getting their work done, and it doesn't matter how badly one is breaking one or all of the software engineering principles.
   • Even a sixth grader can do a product manager's job in most of the dev teams. Believe me, as a developer, you almost do everything.
   • Management is looking to hire candidates who can wear multiple hats but will pay you for wearing only one of them.
   • Managers are not technically sound. They are not even qualified in terms of having a good related computer science and/or MBA degree.
   • Promotions are a joke.
4. I have seen amazing and very talented software professionals breaking down in terms of motivation.
5. It will be no surprise if you happen to hear that one is verbally tortured and harassed by upper management and their cronies.

Just don't exist. Things can very efficiently run without them.