Yahoo doesn't have much of a hiring filter. It's very easy to get hired there. Thus, there are a lot of people just taking up space, or worse. There's a lot of

Yahoo doesn't have much of a hiring filter. It's very easy to get hired there. Thus, there are a lot of people just taking up space, or worse. There's a lot of cargo cult "engineering" going on. This makes it hard for good people to not lose their minds. Whenever Yahoo acquires a company, the acquired talent flees as soon as possible. Google started down the same path of talent dilution with their huge hiring spree a few years back, but they already had enough talent so it's not going to affect them as much. I didn't intend this to be a Yahoo/Google comparison, but it is incorrect to say that Yahoo has done more than Google the past few years. Buzz and Wave are indeed solutions without a problem but are technologically more impressive than anything Yahoo has done, ever.