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Turnover - 2.5 Layoffs and 1 Furlough in 5 years

Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at StubHub for 6 years
April 6, 2020
San Francisco, CA
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Snacks have improved.

Good work life balance.

Cons

If you want to work for an engineering company, don't come here.

Management changes directions pretty often; 5 years later, we've come full circle.

Innovation is stagnant.

You have to pump features out while bandaging the existing code base. If you spend time writing documentation, you get questioned.

They cannot afford to hire senior engineers, so they hire junior ones and then put them in charge of pumping out code to build features.

Advice to Management

Invest in engineering.

Protect engineers from restructuring, constant changes, and let them do work.

Engineering teams have been restructured from Platforms to Journeys to a hybrid of both in two years. We change directors once every year or a year and a half, and have to put up with bull crap.

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