Paycheck, Bureaucracy, No Progress
Paycheck, Bureaucracy, No Progress
Good place if you want to get a paycheck without doing much.
A work culture struggling due to extreme internal politics and low foresight. The company is struggling to shrug off its 15 years of bureaucratic setup.
You really cannot get anything done without struggling against a myriad of management approvals which will never come. The upper management has extremely low foresight in how important it is to give developers chances to work with the technology that is encouraging and innovative.
Case in point is the lack of a "developer relations team" at a company of a size of 16,000 employees, and a good percentage of the 16,000 being developers.
Overall, in my opinion, the higher management doesn't see the company as a technology company. It is more of an e-commerce business company. This is in contrast to Amazon, which at its core remains one of the most technically advanced companies and considers itself a technology company at its heart.
Start thinking of eBay as a technology company rather than a business company employing engineers, or else a fate like Yahoo is not too far.
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I interviewed for a couple of positions through recruiters and had a mixed experience. **Position 1:** The interviewers were very friendly and welcoming. I likely failed due to my own small mistakes in the system design part, but the entire process
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My interview process was unconventional because I was hired as a contract-to-hire. I had applied for the position directly before the contract-to-hire, but I was declined. When I applied directly, the interview process involved a series of phone in
UI Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesApril 1, 2011I had two phone interviews, both technical. Then I was told I am not a good fit for them.
Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesDecember 23, 2017I interviewed for a couple of positions through recruiters and had a mixed experience. **Position 1:** The interviewers were very friendly and welcoming. I likely failed due to my own small mistakes in the system design part, but the entire process
Hadoop Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2011My interview process was unconventional because I was hired as a contract-to-hire. I had applied for the position directly before the contract-to-hire, but I was declined. When I applied directly, the interview process involved a series of phone in
