A slow, misadvertised place to work - werkgeversreview Senior Software Engineer bij eBay

1,0
22 jan 2018
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Pluspunten

Very relaxing atmosphere. Long lunch breaks. Ping pong table. Low stress environment. Nice people. Excellent location Good holidays, pay, and benefits

Minpunten

The job was advertised as being a startup job at a cool company with exposure to modern technologies(Clojure, Ruby on Rails, React). The overwhelming bulk of the work was maintaining an incredibly poorly architected codebase in Java 7 written by the acquirer (ebay), exactly as instructed by the US office. Decisions take almost forever to make. Feedback is loudly welcomed and then promptly discarded. The state of the codebase is awful - static initialization is practiced as a matter of course(for instance), and the configuration is tracked through an in house built and maintained system. Agile practices are spoken of and ignored. No real attempts at resolving the issues are taken. Any open discourse about the situation is suppressed by management. No new technologies or progress is attempted.

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5,0
17 mei 2026
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Pluspunten

good culture friendly people and good benefits

Minpunten

leadership direction politics tenured individuals who do not change their ways of working

3,0
20 jun 2026
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Pluspunten

Relaxing culture. family first. Stock performance is generally good for the recent two years and huge benefit if you're eligible for ESPP. Stable product with large customer base means you get opportunity to work on project with real impact.

Minpunten

1. Blind push for AI and leadership expect unrealistic efficiency improvement 2. Layoff every year in Feb (2024, 2025, 2026) and sometimes can feel the tension in team 3. Legacy tech stack with isolated and fragile infrastructure. Developer friction is a real pain. You get random infra down every once a while and internal support becomes even worse since they started offshoring to LCOL area in 2025. 4. Hiring freeze in San Jose... just expect more layoff coming up + frequent meetings at night / early morning across regions

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