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Lots of politics and engineers not open to new ideas

Software Quality Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at eBay for 2 years
April 5, 2014
San Jose, California
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Good pay, work/life balance is good. Some teams are doing really good work.

Cons

Lot of politics.

To grow vertically, you have to be in your manager or director's good books.

Engineers are not open to new ideas.

Everything revolves around in-house eBay tools with which no work can be done.

Stack ranking forcefully ranks good employees low.

Advice to Management

Get rid of the stack ranking. Let engineers use more open source.

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