Is the Exodus of Ebay Employees an Indication of Low Employee Morale?

[mandy]

The latest from Randy Smythe:

I've written several eBay Brain Drain posts over the last year and left it up to readers to read between the lines but no longer. I believe the changes at eBay since 2005 were brought about by a management battle for the direction of eBay and the consultants won.

I can understand one or two good people leaving for better opportunities but the list from eBay is growing daily. There has been an exodus of very good people since 2005 when John Donahoe was hired to run eBay's Marketplace business. Employee morale must be very low right now. Might we one day see the eBay version of Yahoo's Peanut Butter memo...

eBay is now run by consultants like John Donahoe who manage strictly by the numbers and have no connection to what made eBay great...

full article: http://rksmythe.blogspot.com/2007/05/mor...in_29.html