Because Yahoo isn't a small company? They have been losing a lot of engineers and it must be hell to recruit people to join Yahoo, negative press like this is o

Because Yahoo isn't a small company? They have been losing a lot of engineers and it must be hell to recruit people to join Yahoo, negative press like this is only going to make it worse. As for why I think having Yahoo engineers take over janitorial duties is silly... If you're paying Silicon Valley engineering wages to someone (which they are, no one is going to Yahoo for stock options!) you should make sure they are working on engineering level tasks. It would be a giant waste of resources to have people do tasks they are overqualified for.