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I can't imagine working for Yahoo is so bad - not worse than other big corps anyway. Seems to me they actually provide a lot of cool things, too. For example, Y

by Tichy 16y ago

I can't imagine working for Yahoo is so bad - not worse than other big corps anyway. Seems to me they actually provide a lot of cool things, too. For example, YUI, Hadoop, lots of internet services, BOSS,... Also, I think they came up with internal Hackathons first? Just to name a few things - I am not a specialist on all things Yahoo, but I don't get why everybody seems to hate them.

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staunch 16y ago
Google has vastly more interesting software and services, so if that's the basis for a decision the winner is obvious. Of course that has nothing to do with their decision. They're probably much more concerned with who's more likely to make Yelp successful going forward. That's also pretty obvious. They'd bet $200 million that Google is a better bet. Talk about putting your money where your mouth is.
- Tichy 16y ago
  If they are working for Yelp, it seems unlikely that after the acquisition, Google will move them to the core search engine team. Good point about where are the better chances. They must really care for their product, then. I would assume it is a given that after an acquisition, you just try to get out of the company asap.
  - eru 16y ago
    We still have lots of the original XenSource team at Citrix.
- gaius 16y ago
  Google has vastly more interesting software Well, that's certainly the public perception, but I think the reality is more subtle. Like BigTable and MapReduce are just whitepapers outside of Google, but you can actually download and use Hadoop, and who wrote that?
  - joshu 16y ago
    I worked at both. "Vastly" is an understatement.
brown9-2 16y ago
Well there likely a world of difference between "working for Yahoo" as an engineer and attempting to run your business (Yelp) within the organization and Yahoo's management structure. If I was management of Yelp, I'd be concerned about the latter, not the former.
- jonhendry 16y ago
  After they buy it, it's not your business anymore.
  - brown9-2 16y ago
    True but most entrepreneurs probably don't want to sell their baby to someone who they think will let it die.
    - ahoyhere 16y ago
      Then they shouldn't have starved their baby to begin with, by not coming up with a business model that made them actual money.
  - mgkimsal 16y ago
    There might be some stipulation in the sale that you'd have to stay on for X months or years. Many people might have not wanted to agree to that.
aristus 16y ago
I worked for two startups which ended up acquired by Yahoo. The engineering culture is fantastic. Some of the smartest people I know work there. The rest of the company seems sclerotic and obsessed with turf wars. That's what did it for me. It was difficult to get things done quickly. Every cool & useful project was almost an act of rebellion. It's galling to see so much latent potential. Don't look at it as "no worse than big corps". The shame is that it's no better.

by Tichy 16y ago

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staunch 16y ago

Google has vastly more interesting software and services, so if that's the basis for a decision the winner is obvious. Of course that has nothing to do with their decision. They're probably much more concerned with who's more likely to make Yelp successful going forward. That's also pretty obvious. They'd bet $200 million that Google is a better bet. Talk about putting your money where your mouth is.

Tichy 16y ago
If they are working for Yelp, it seems unlikely that after the acquisition, Google will move them to the core search engine team. Good point about where are the better chances. They must really care for their product, then. I would assume it is a given that after an acquisition, you just try to get out of the company asap.
- eru 16y ago
  We still have lots of the original XenSource team at Citrix.
gaius 16y ago
Google has vastly more interesting software Well, that's certainly the public perception, but I think the reality is more subtle. Like BigTable and MapReduce are just whitepapers outside of Google, but you can actually download and use Hadoop, and who wrote that?
- joshu 16y ago
  I worked at both. "Vastly" is an understatement.

brown9-2 16y ago

Well there likely a world of difference between "working for Yahoo" as an engineer and attempting to run your business (Yelp) within the organization and Yahoo's management structure. If I was management of Yelp, I'd be concerned about the latter, not the former.

jonhendry 16y ago
After they buy it, it's not your business anymore.
- brown9-2 16y ago
  True but most entrepreneurs probably don't want to sell their baby to someone who they think will let it die.
  - ahoyhere 16y ago
    Then they shouldn't have starved their baby to begin with, by not coming up with a business model that made them actual money.
- mgkimsal 16y ago
  There might be some stipulation in the sale that you'd have to stay on for X months or years. Many people might have not wanted to agree to that.

aristus 16y ago

I worked for two startups which ended up acquired by Yahoo. The engineering culture is fantastic. Some of the smartest people I know work there. The rest of the company seems sclerotic and obsessed with turf wars. That's what did it for me. It was difficult to get things done quickly. Every cool & useful project was almost an act of rebellion. It's galling to see so much latent potential. Don't look at it as "no worse than big corps". The shame is that it's no better.