Posts Tagged ‘eBay’

eBay Employees Recall Work Environment Under Whitman, HP’s New CEO

Posted by • September 22nd, 2011 • 46 Comments

With the world watching as Meg Whitman, eBay’s former CEO, takes over as Hewlett-Packard’s newest CEO, Glassdoor dug into employee reviews to uncover what eBay employees had to say about working under Whitman. Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from 1998 to 2008. During her ten years with the company she oversaw expansion from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue.

Here’s what eBay employees, during Whitman’s tenure as CEO, had to say:

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Tech CEO Report Card: Schmidt Goes At All-Time High Approval Rating; eBay’s Donahoe Climbs As Yahoo’s Bartz Falls In Past Year

Posted by • April 1st, 2011 • 22 Comments

As Google CEO Eric Schmidt prepares to hand over the reins, his employee approval rating is at an all-time high – and the highest among his peer group CEOs, according to new analysis from Glassdoor.com that evaluated employee opinions of 12 large technology companies over the past two years1. Based on surveys submitted by Google employees over the past 12 months (March 2010-March 2011), Schmidt’s approval rating is 96%, up three points from the prior 12-month period.

He’s followed closely by Apple’s Steve Jobs, who — even while on medical leave — has a 95% approval rating, down 3 points from the prior year. During the same period, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Oracle’s Larry Ellison both dropped four points to 83% and 73% approval respectively.

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eBay Layoffs – Will Donahoe Be Next?

Posted by • October 7th, 2008 • 7 Comments
John Donahoe / CEO of eBay

So the economy is tanking and there’s no shortage of bad news out there, but for today we thought we’d take a break from talking about financial services to talk about a local high-tech favorite – eBay. 

Yesterday, John Donahoe, the new CEO of eBay, announced he would be “streamlining” – otherwise known as laying off 10% of their workforce and letting go of several hundred temporary positions (1,600 jobs in total). Layoffs by themselves are not surprising in this economy, but if you’ve been reading any of the eBay reviews from the last month you’d know that that employees themselves will be looking for John himself to be included in this round of cuts.

Company
CEO
Approval Rating

Motorola
Greg Brown
10.6%

Rain Bird
Anthony LaFetra
11.4%

AOL
Randy Falco
13.4%

EDS
Ron Rittenmeyer
13.5%

Computer Sciences
Mike Laphen
19.3%

Wal-Mart
H. Lee Scott Jr.
23.5%

eBay
John Donahoe
25.2%

Nortel Networks
Mike S. Zafirovski
25.5%

UBS
Marcel Rohner
27.0%

Sun Microsystems
Jonathan Schwartz
28.9%

With a dismal 25.2% CEO approval rating (among the 10 worst with 50 or more reviews), employees haven’t been holding back. Whether its managements need for yet another re-org, change upon change that shows a lack of understanding and appreciation for the eBay ecosystem, or concerns about management killing the “cash cow” or “golden goose” (take your pick) – eBay employees have been especially active on Glassdoor lately.

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