eBay Senior Software Developer reviews

- Too many meetings - Far, far too much time spent generating reports for middle management - Annual review process is more like a high school popularity contest and is mapped to a bell curve (just like high school), so actual performance counts for much less than it should - Frequency of updates to the site means quality comes second, and there is never, ever, ever a "slow period" where you can catch up on anything - Too many middle managers - Too many people adding new processes and tools without following through to make them integrated with the rest of the systems

Outsource too much. Hire a lot of people who are not creative, just to get the project done. Very little focus on stability of the system and quality of code Very, Very, Very bad build and release system, all built in house. Business Unit changes their mind very often as to what they want, make for very low quality site.