Comments on: Go grab yourself an ex-eBay staffer, they’re on sale

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aoifebeefah » Blog Archive » My Right Foot -and being let go! — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:52:09 +0000

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By: Nathan O'Hanlon

Nathan O'Hanlon — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:05:57 +0000

@raj – actually, miss-read your comment, you’re looking for someone – contact me if you like.

By: Nathan O'Hanlon

Nathan O'Hanlon — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:03:05 +0000

@Andrew – I’m a current contractor and the Senior Web Application Developer there. I am at FOWA today and looking for a good startup that is open to using symfony and PHP, after a month’s notice, and finishing up 240m views a week. I can confirm there are not many, but 1 QA, 1-3 other web developers, a technical project manager, probably a designer, and probably a handful of less technical product people there. Mainly contractors and often trading under their own companies. Twitter nathanlon or email me. West London’s best. eBay is a great company, and they will do well – but times are tough globally. @raj – no dev work there so don’t bother.

By: Andrew H.

Andrew H. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:54:43 +0000

@Raj Anand – Not sure you’re going to find any Dev’s at eBay UK HQ. As an ex-employee i can confirm that it’s all sales and marketing at Hotham House. Still, lots of smart people…..

By: Chris Fleming

Chris Fleming — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:16:27 +0000

It would be interesting to know who makes up the EBAY Uk office. I suspect that they will all be Sales and Marketing types, rather than technical…

By: raj Anand

raj Anand — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:06:54 +0000

I’m considering doing that for a junior devs role Thanks for the tip Mike !

By: Ivan Trajkovic

Ivan Trajkovic — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:16:27 +0000

LOL! This is a good one!

By: Pandolf

Pandolf — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:50:17 +0000

Or perhaps one can expect these ex-employees to take our money but not deliver, as has happened to me several times on eBay.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:43:05 +0000

Perhaps, in line with the helpful advice eBay give when trying to turn a profit by selling something on their site, they should improve their chance of selling by…
“Consider a lower start price”

By: Keir Moffatt

Keir Moffatt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:54:40 +0000

Perhaps they could all auction themselves off on eBay as a ’start-up’ kit.

By: Danvers Baillieu

Danvers Baillieu — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:49:02 +0000

Presumably they’ll all happily work for the highest bidder – after 7 days of course.

By: Robin Blandford

Robin Blandford — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:45:05 +0000

lol!! wonder if the same is true in Dublin http://www.ebayjobsireland.com 99% of the jobs offered on ebay are Asia. 0 for Ireland.