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      eBay Software Developer reviews

      3.8

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (297 total reviews)
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      Jamie Iannone

      64% approve of CEO

      28% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      Software Developer employees have rated eBay with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 297 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      297 reviews
      4.0
      Apr 5, 2009

      Very brief survey

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good competent colleagues - Innovations in work is possible - Company can make good profits by segmenting the formats clearly - Good facilities within the company. Freebies are still available when the economy is what it is now

      Cons

      - Innovations are not leveraged by the company - Improve the processes and regain the technology DNA within the company - Managers are not competent enough to un do the process heavy life cycle and adapt a agile life cycle for products - Too many meetings for people at all levels and seems the only way to communicate across group and across layers of hierarchy is by meeting

      4.0
      Jan 10, 2009

      Not much fun anymore

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      eBay is a good place to learn about running a high-scale Web site, both operations and software-wise. Work environment became much less stressful in the last two years after Lynn left (no 2AM anymore!). There is always some level of satisfaction from fixing the site used by so many users. If you're lucky, you can get to a team with many great engineers. Moving between the teams and advancing career are reasonably easy. And the company generates tons of profit, which makes employees feel more secure.

      Cons

      Bureaucracy in software engineering is depressing. There's less and less room for engineering experiment, as many attempts would get overwhelmed (or slowed down to a halt) by politics or requirements to prove profitability of ideas. A lot of great engineers left in 2005-2007, and new hires are not of a that great quality. Politic games and pretending that everything works just great affected morale of many engineers. And as you all know, more and more sellers hate changes being done by eBay. It is now difficult to find positive posts about eBay on any blogs... How sad. eBay used to be a wonderful company for customers and employees, I really enjoyed working there.

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