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Any ex Yahoo'ers from SF Bay Area interested in joining us to work on http://cloudHQ.net http://cloudHQ.net?

• kjksf 16y ago
  Is it wise to offer jobs to those who have been laid off? Logic dictates that people most likely to be laid off are those who perform the worst hence, probabilistically, it's not the best worker pool to target.
  • nostrademons 16y ago
    In a logical company. Yahoo's proven itself to be a not terribly logical company. In their 2009 round of layoffs, they seemed to axe their best performing but highest paid employees - those are exactly the ones that an ambitious startup would want to target.
  • cookiecaper 16y ago
    It usually doesn't work that way, especially when 500 employees constitutes only 4 percent of the workforce. That's a lot of employees to target. A layoff is the result of a company's financial situation, which can fluctuate through no fault of the affected employees; if an engineer is assigned to a faltering project and taht project gets the axe, then it is not necessarily an indictment of his job performance. Even if those that get cut are cut because they aren't "top performers", that doesn't mean they aren't useful or good developers. You have to be good to get into Yahoo et al in the first place, and if there's a lot of competition in the job market, you may be able to get super-excellent candidates into jobs until the market looks up, at which time your employees that are merely good are not so precious.