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It's just a sign of corporate rot. Yahoo doesn't do anything nearly complicated enough to warrant that many employees. And I'd be willing to bet more than 1/3 o
by sam0x17 8y ago
It's just a sign of corporate rot. Yahoo doesn't do anything nearly complicated enough to warrant that many employees. And I'd be willing to bet more than 1/3 of them are "managers". Cull the non-engineer/product/design people I say.
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- scarface74 8y agoI don’t see how it would be possible to have that many good engineers left at Yahoo. I would think that most of the good ones left a long time ago and they are suffering from the “Dead Sea Effect”. http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-dead-sea-effect/ http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
- zimpenfish 8y agoWhen I was there (2005-6), there were many layers of management between me, a developer, and Terry Semel, CEO (IIRC, it was more than 10, possibly even 15.) Often it was like working in Brazil (the film).