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5. The benefits of an independent website
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7. How to tell if you need a new site
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3. Agenda
• About Akraya
• About eBay, PayPal & StubHub
• Getting Around
• Akraya @ eBay
• Wages & Expenses
• Time Sheets
• Protecting Company Information
• Refer a Friend
• Contacts
4. Akraya at a Glance
• Established: 2001
• Clients: Fortune 500 & Bay Area Startups
• Stewards: Social & Environmental
• Certified:
Woman-owned Minority-owned Green Business
• Multinational Footprint:
US UK Australia Brazil Canada Singapore Mexico
7. Corporate Social Responsibility
• Gold Sponsor of the Race for Literacy
• Partner of Code For Fun
• Corporate Matching Fundraiser Program for
Haiti, Japan & Africa
• Bay Area Certified Green Business
• Peach Through Business Mentorship Program
• Habitat for Humanity
8. eBay Fun Facts
• Was originally called AuctionWeb
• First item ever listed on eBay: broken laser pointer
• 400+ million items for sale
• 112+ million active users
• Weird things that were put on eBay: William Shatner sold his
kidney stone in 2006, a cardboard that was cut to the shape of
the iPhone 5 sold for $300,000
• First seller to reach one million feedback scores: Jack Sheng
(there is a conference room named after him on campus)
• Most expensive item ever sold on eBay: Gulfstream II Jet that
sold for $4.9 million in 2001
9. PayPal Fun Facts
• Paypal was voted one of the 10 worst business ideas in 1999
(original concept was to beam $ from one Palm Pilot to
another)
• 110+ million active accounts in 2012
• Without Paypal, there would be no YouTube! Former Paypal
employees launched YouTube following the Paypal business
model
• Founders and early employees of Paypal are referred to as the
"Paypal Mafia"- they went on founding companies including
Linkedin, Yelp, Tesla, YouTube and Reddit
• Paypal supports 24 different currencies and available in 190
countries and territories around the world.
10. StubHub Fun Facts
• Sports, concerts, theater and other live entertainment events
platform for buyers & sellers
• Founded in 2000, acquired by eBay in 2007 for $310 million
• Approximately 15 million visitors/month in 2012
• As of May 2013, StubHub has more than 90 partners,
including Major League Baseball, more than 35 NCAA colleges
and universities, and ESPN
15. Akraya-Supported Groups @ eBay
• Infrastructure
• Site Ops
• Quality Engineering
• Fraud & Risk Management
• HRIS
• PMO
• Creative (UED) and
Marketing
• Database Engineering
• Product Development
• Platforms
• Data Management
• Analytic & BI
• Mobile
• Cloud
• Search
• Compliance
• InfoSec
• Storage and Systems
Engineering
16. Wages & Expenses
• Payment of wages will be as outlined in your original contract
with Akraya
• Questions about your wages? Contact hr@akraya.com or
your Sr. Customer Success Specialist (CSS)
• Under no circumstance should you discuss your wages with
your Client
• Necessary business expenses must first be approved by your
Akraya Account Manager (AM) or CSS in advance
• Prior to incurring the expense, you must get written
permission from your Akraya AM so that an amendment to
the original Statement of Work can be generated.
17. Time Sheets: SOW
• Contract-specific no more than 40 hours per week/ 8 hours
per day
• Email time Sheets on Monday before 5pm to hr@akraya.com
• If you are required to put in additional efforts beyond the
standard 8 hours per day, please get prior written permission
from your CSS
• eBay manager approval is not required
• Please send time sheets on time to ensure that you get paid
on time
18. Time Sheets: Temp
• Submit time into FieldGlass tool
• Submit Time Sheet by End Of Business on Friday for timely
Monday approval
• eBay manager approval is required
• Please send time sheets on time to ensure that you get paid
on time
19. Monthly Activity Report
• Documents are only required from SOW consultants
• Please turn Monthly Activity Reports on the first Monday of
every month for the previous month’s activity
• Please email:
eBayPayPalMAR@akraya.com
Why do we need it?
Important for us to keep track of milestone progress for the
project you are working on.
20. Protecting Company
Information & Assets
• No Expectation of Privacy – All electronic communications and
information systems may be monitored by eBay Inc
• Inspection – Any property owned by eBay Inc. is subject to
inspection without notice
• Passwords – Keep your passwords secure. You are strictly
prohibited from accessing another user's account without
permission
• Prohibited Activities – Do not use any eBay Inc. system, to
distribute communications that are illegal, disruptive,
offensive to others
21. Protecting Company
Information & Assets (Cont.)
• Email – Use email appropriately. Do not send unsolicited
emails
• Unauthorized use in any way of copyrighted material; export
any material, information or software is in violation of
international or regional export control laws
• Upon assignment termination return all eBay Inc. property,
material, written information and your badge immediately
22. Reminders
• You are expected to be at your on-site work location during
regular working hours. Check with your Manager on preferred
office hours for your team
• Plan your vacation ahead, discuss with your Akraya CSS
• Please copy Akraya CSS on any leave requests
• Submit Monthly Activity Report for project / SOW-based
consultants
• All questions related to your employment should be directed
to your Akraya CSS and not to the eBay Inc manager
23. Refer a Friend
• Refer another qualified consultant to Akraya and receive $250
for a successful placement.*
*Restrictions apply, please visit:
akraya.com/about/refer-a-friend
24. New Consultant Survey
• Watch out for the Consultant Survey email
• Rate our onboarding process
• Only 5 minutes of your time
• Enter to WIN a $25 Starbucks Gift Card
26. eBay Contacts
• North (PayPal) Lobby: 408.967.7000
• South (eBay) Lobby: 408.376.6151
• Security: 408.376.8888
• Email: DL-ebay-SJCC-security
• Work Place Resources(WPR): 408.376.6001
• Global Service Desk(GSD): 408.376.7474
• AWF Answers Team (AWF):
• 866.456.7831
• Email: AWFAnswers@ebay.com
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