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Maybe I'm misunderstanding job-titles, but how does a 32 y.o. become the senior manager of global intelligence and moreover a 26 y.o. the company’s manager of g
by cycomanic 6y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding job-titles, but how does a 32 y.o. become the senior manager of global intelligence and moreover a 26 y.o. the company’s manager of global intelligence center. I mean the job descriptions sound like their are one level below the directors (also considering the two directors involved). Considering that the 26 y.o. was 25 last year, she would have been out of uni maybe 2 years ago? Is that normal?
- sct202 6y agoMaybe they were hired because they would blindly follow orders.
- lesdeuxmagots 6y agoIC -> manager -> director -> vp 4ish years to promote up, especially the first two level levels. Velocity isn't all that crazy.
- andreilys 6y agoYeah maybe at a small company, but not one the size of eBay.
- selimthegrim 6y agoIs eBay that undesirable a place to work for now in SV?
- abawany 6y agoI had a (thankfully) short stint there as part of an organizational mess that swept me up a few years ago: it was a very painful experience. Clearcase, old undocumented code that you were not allowed to reformat because it would generate too many diffs, database as a message bus, etc. The day I left was one of my happiest ones that year.
- londons_explore 6y agoThat would explain why I haven't seen any memorable product innovation from eBay in a decade... I tried to sell something last week, and assumed that it would be a 30 second affair of "snap photo, set reserve price, done". No, no. We can't have things be this simple... Have fun clicking through a massive list of options and settings... By the time you've got to the end of that form you wish you just took the item to the dump!
- abawany 6y agoPlus the anti-seller bias generally ensures that a bad buyer can ruin your day. I used to sell my old electronics on eBay a lot but recently have used it as a last resort if Craigslist and Swappa didn't work out.
- ponker 6y agoA lot of times if you are willing and able to do things that other people can't, you can get quickly promoted. If you are seen as the kind of person who could wage an effective terrorism campaign against a random couple in Massachusetts because they wrote mean things about your Fortune 500 employer, you are in a very small club and you will be sought out when you are needed.
- perl4ever 6y ago"things that other people can't" I would phrase it as "things other people can't or won't". Jim Cramer wrote a book in which he described how someone told him he could have a job if he would just "go in that office over there and fire that guy". He did.
- refurb 6y agoThe “manager” and “senior manager” titles are IC roles. I’ve seen plenty of people land a “manager” role right out of school. And “senior manager” is a short jump. And if the team isn’t very big, those ICs report into a Director. Otherwise their may be an Associate Director in between.
- ryandrake 6y agoThe titles of the "executives" from the article: * director of safety and security * director of global resiliency * senior manager of global intelligence * manager of global intelligence center (GIC) * contractor who worked as an intelligence analyst * senior manager None of these are what I'd consider an executive, as titles go, at major tech companies. The highest ranking title (director) is solidly middle-management.
- kethinov 6y agoConnections. The majority of promotions to management or senior management levels that I've seen in SV (including when I worked at eBay) were the result of knowing someone with the power to make it happen for you.