I know few people that I used to work with, that moved to yahoo and they are good. Can't say, best of the best, but they were pretty decent at coding. This is

I know few people that I used to work with, that moved to yahoo and they are good. Can't say, best of the best, but they were pretty decent at coding. This is just circumstantial evidence though. Google is attracting the prime rate "coorporate hackers", apple, yahoo and amazon the second rate ones, then hp and ibm the crap that like to be consultants". As I say, this is just a generalization, so there are plenty of exceptions. And when I say "coorporate hackers", i mean it. Unless you have lots of options to vest, or an H-1b, or waiting for the green card, a true hacker would not want to be in those enviroments. When cooporate grows, so does internal political bullsh!t, which eventually will drive good people away.