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Little innovation and ability to develop new businesses: now that it is a big company and part of an even bigger company, the entrepreneurial drive is gone, and anything outside of the core business is ignored. Bureaucratic and process intensive - lots of people who want to say no instead of yes and lots of process to go through to get even little things done. Consensus driven culture means lots of meetings to get buy in and keep people informed. Burdened by being part of eBay, Inc. - would be much better off as a stand alone company. The HR department and HR policies suck - they don't walk the talk when it comes to treating employees well.

Development environment is archaic. Infrastructure is fragile. Code base is immense, poorly documented, and poorly understood. Too much emphasis is given to new features over consolidating and solidifying existing features. Middle and upper management are focused too much on marketing requests at the expense of development needs. Emphasis is placed on development days rather than productivity. Development tools are outdated. Available information is disorganized and not maintained. Developer productivity suffers greatly due to poor code organization, old tools, enormous code base, unstable development environment, and questionable management decisions. Stock price has been flat for the last four years.