Well, author said it himself: he was at Yahoo! Search. Search is so technologically challenging that there is no choice but to have hackerish culture in this te

Well, author said it himself: he was at Yahoo! Search. Search is so technologically challenging that there is no choice but to have hackerish culture in this team (if you want this team to produce something). Microsoft Bing team (originally known as MSN Search Team) operated noticeably differently than MSN or rest of Microsoft, as time goes it changes, but still.