eBay reviews

In any large company, it goes through at least one re-organizations a year. Projects that were considered good a year ago, no longer are. Strategies change, people get shuffled around, project scope changes / gets cancelled and company looses valuable time. Also, no culture for innovation...low reward.

It is a fairly young group of people, the majority of whom came to eBay straight from business school with no significant prior management experience. They seem to underestimate the complexity of projects and when they blow up two extremes seem to result: a) infighting and finger pointing or b) they back down and the projects die on the vine. Overall, solid planning and communication are sorely lacking at eBay. This can be seen in John Donahoe's strategies that are aspirational in nature rather than actionable. (i.e. 1) Re-ignite the core, 2) Grow adjacencies, 3) Plant seeds. That basically translates to: 1) tend to the base business, 2) tend to recently started businesses, 3) invest in new businesses. What! Work on the current business, and invest in some new stuff? That's not very prescriptive!)