Too much politics ! - werkgeversreview Senior Staff Software Engineer bij eBay

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30 mrt 2012
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Pluspunten

It used to be a great place to work, where a small team had a big impact. Lots of challenging problems to solve and opportunity to impact millions of users.

Minpunten

Over time, too much politics has crept in. A lot of new management from Microsoft/Yahoo(trend started late 2011/2012). - Follow Agile process to death! Daily standup meetings, and PjMs plan each step of the agile process. Takes the fun out of coding. - Has become too political, people pushing own agenda - Too much churn in management, priorities keep shifting - Incompetent middle management layer - Specially avoid the backend and ranking teams, too much redundant work being done. - Most teams just doing rewrites that last multiple years, not much scope of creativity. - Typical projects last ~6-8 months and even multiple years and are usually redundant by the time they are done. - work/life balance sucks - read your contract carefully, they can fire you at will anytime - common practice to get rid of old timers every few years

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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

5,0
27 mei 2026
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Pluspunten

Good work, lots of AI experiments, AI innovation, latest tech stack, Co-workers are very co-operative and helpful. Most AI tools are still unlimited.

Minpunten

Some teams are over-working due to smaller teams as a result of recent layoffs. Office perks (like catered food, snacks) are dwindling every quarter even though company wants every employee to be 3 days a week in office. Company wants 80 percent code to be generated by AI but no clear guideline how to achieve that.

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