733 Senior Member of Technical Staff, Software Jobs in Sunnyvale, CA

“nice”

Pros:  “integrity the ability to work on different technologies”

Cons:  “sometimes stagnation and ccr fixing” – Full Review

“Great place to start your career.”

Pros:  “Good compensation and benefits, good work/life balance. Opportunity to work with some of the best and the brightest in the industry.”

Cons:  “It is a large corporation, with lots of moving parts...” – Full Review

“good company for old style traditional engineers”

Pros:  “- stable and profitable whatever whenever - not too much pressure - there are much to learn if you are willing to learn - good life work balance if you work smartly”

Cons:  “- there are no cons actually if you are a stable and tradional old style family-oriented engineer. - if you want great risk and reward, go to a startup, Maxim-ic…” – Full Review

“Great time to be @ eBay”

Pros:  “- This is a time in which the company is very open to new and innovative ways to do things better. Lots of room for input and creativity. - Some very smart people here…”

Cons:  “- There's certainly a bell curve in terms of talent. Some people are amazing but many others, while they do their best, are just OK. - Communication/transparency…” – Full Review

“Hands down, the best place I've ever worked”

Pros:  “Not much to get in the way of pure development, plenty of support, great attitude, amazing work environment, the feeling one can do anything is fostered. Simply put, the best…”

Cons:  “Could do a better job with physical resource logistics.” – Full Review

“Good place to work”

Pros:  “Great place to learn and work with technology. VMware has products/components across multiple areas - storage, network, compute/memory to name a few and also many new cloud…”

Cons:  “Processes like reviews and promotions are becoming more rigid and bureaucratic as company is getting bigger. Also as the company gets bigger, it is harder to keep…” – Full Review

“Glad to be away from PPI”

Pros:  “I don't really have anything good to say. They did give me a job when times were tough but that's no reason to work for PPI. They did have a couple of pretty good…”

Cons:  “Management not only unsupportive but they belittled employees in front of others - particularly senior mgt. The whole culture was one of distrust of employees and…” – Full Review

“Best place I've ever worked at!”

Pros:  “Really smart engineers Good managers (if you work with the good ones) Easy to get things done Interesting work”

Cons:  “Codebase a bit fragmented, difficult to fix sometimes Should document software more Sometimes management/marketing make clueless decisions” – Full Review

“Dynamic, but very disorganized and not respectful environment”

Pros:  “- Good sign-on bonus and initial stock awards - Opportunity to work with very large distributed systems (at uncommon scale) - Working for Amazon Web Services looks good on…”

Cons:  “- You do some development, but you are not a software developer. The title "software development engineer" is misleading and this is the first thing to be aware of…” – Full Review