eBay Software Developer reviews

3.8

61% would recommend to a friend

(295 total reviews)
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Jamie Iannone

64% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated eBay with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 295 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. eBay is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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295 reviews
2.0
Jul 19, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, few talented people, free soda.

Cons

Legacy and proprietary garbage will ruin your day and your desire to live as you count the hours in your little chicken coop/cubicle. For goodness' sake, they still use ClearCase! Java based stack is proprietary with SOAP suck-vices ruling the roost. There are rumors of a better stack in the works but it also is proprietary. Also, svc control is non-existent and any random doofus can call your code without anyone the wiser until you get pulled into troubleshooting live issues overnight. Morons with their tiny little fiefdoms will block you at every turn. Worst of all are the tinpot QA people who will blame you first to ensure that their lack of testing ability doesn't come up when yet another live bug comes up. This place is where know-nothing failures and H1B indentured servants come to lose their soul. Stay the heck away unless you have no talent or desire to grow. Goodbye eNay, I made sure the door didn't hit me on my posterior on the way out.

1.0
May 31, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive salary/ mac book. Stock is doing fine.

Cons

eBay search is run in a very disorganized fashion. They are developing new search engine which only few folks are allowed to touch. Rest of the engineers are not utilized properly and no one cares for the end product. Most of engineers have left the group and many are in process to leave the group. Managers lack technical expertise and are busy in playing politics and using one against other. This was not the case earlier. I will seriously advice you not to join the search group as this will be total waste of time.

3.0
Apr 18, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My manager and (most of my) colleagues were professionals, and it was a pleasure to work with them. Great benefits. Good work life balance. My manager was fine with me working from 6-8 at home, and then from 9-4 at the office.

Cons

Physical environment was awful for software development. Salary was not competitive, even when compared to those performing similar work in the company. I got decent performance bonuses, however I object to distribution "on a curve", where managers essentially have to duke it out so their reports can get decent bonuses. This ingrains a belief that you can't have a team where multiple people are performing at "exceeds expectations"-- which isn't true.

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