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"another worried about the ability of managers to stanch the flow of valued employees." That is the problem right there: shitty managers at Yahoo. I spent a fe
by discardorama 11y ago
"another worried about the ability of managers to stanch the flow of valued employees."
That is the problem right there: shitty managers at Yahoo. I spent a few years there, and despite being in the industry for many years, I've yet to find a more dysfunctional setup. Managers have absolutely zero accountability at Yahoo. In any other place, if engineers start leaving a manager, it would be cause for concern; if too many do so, the manager is axed. But in Yahoo, shitty managers hang around, hopping from project to project, biding their time till they can find a new project to shit on.
And the tech stack?!? Don't even get me started.
Yahoo needs to cut out its management layers, and reduce the manager headcount by 75%. Only then will it start turning around.
- swagswag 11y agowhat is the tech stack...
- cloakandswagger 11y agoPrimarily Yahoo Pipes with a PHP and COBOL backend. All stored in Microsoft SourceSafe, if the project you're working on is even using a VCS.
- kaonashi 11y ago> Microsoft SourceSafe is that still a nightmare to work with remotely?
- deciplex 11y agoI don't know if you're serious.
- cscurmudgeon 11y agoHe is bad at joking. E.g. Where do you think Hadoop comes from?
- vidoc 11y ago> And the tech stack?!? Don't even get me started. To me, technical mediocrity at yahoo is the number one problem.