Horrible Leadership with a slave driving attitude - Senior Staff Software Engineer eBay Employee Review

2.0
5 Nov 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Nice campus - Good facilities - Great cafeteria - Good company mission - Interesting challenges to solve

Cons

- No diversity - Weak quality of engineers compared to other silicon valley companies - A bunch of yes men lead organizations, that don't question or debate anything that comes from the top - Total command and control style leadership, constantly hounding dates - Easily swayed by rumors and don't bother to perform their own analysis - If you are part of the desi mafia, you will thrive (sad)

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Cons

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