It was a culture shock when I joined eBay, having worked in big tech all my life, eBay seems to be stuck in its ways, people there are cult like that follow the process blindly. The planning process is a joke! Run by TPMs, prioritizing and giving estimates before the product team even understands the full requirements. Product management role is an after thought, they still use 25 year old legacy tools and systems. They have engineers who are around for 20+ years embodying eBay DNA, and nothing can phase them.#tech #ebay #oldfashioned
I have seen that happen. It’s very political, and yes man kinda people get all the benefits. In fact these inexperienced managers have too much ego that needs constant massaging. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Amazon culture is way more positive compared to eBay’s toxic under qualified folks.
This is damn right. I thought it was only in my team
Lol pretty sure a laid off guy throwing dirt at the company. Don’t believe OP a second
Nah OP is telling the truth
can you tell what are 25 years old tools and processes?
@indigo7 - good luck staying in a non relevant company working on non relevant projects and scumbags. Legacy tech is everywhere!!!
Lol any company is better than Amazon 🤣
eBay sucks!! The most non relevant company that is still apparently making profits on pokeman cards and second hand luxury bags!!! That’s their market and not sure who even buys on eBay anymore!! They are a mess internally and don’t think they have the vision to change! Planning process is a joke and the legacy platform is ancient with features slapped on it!! The engineering team is as ancient as the tool itself!! Planning process was hilarious and I couldn’t stop laughing whenever they would have those meetings. Every aspect of it seemed ridiculous and casual.
Just because we don’t have 6 page documents and reading them sitting in meetings doesn’t mean our process is joke 😁
Engineering team, lol let’s get into a interview or a conversation and see you or I will do better?
Someone I worked with who has very few years of pm Experience before eBay talked his way into a director++ there can’t say I’m suprised pm is an afterthought