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I wish I'd talked to you last august. I think all of those things are great and make for a place I'd want to work. But everyone I did manage to talk to said tha

I wish I'd talked to you last august. I think all of those things are great and make for a place I'd want to work. But everyone I did manage to talk to said that it was horrible working at Yahoo. This was even before MSFT started bidding. It's also not a vote of confidence when every manager or executive I talked to has now had an entry on TechCrunch announcing their departure.

IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
I'll tell you what I told the last recruiter who tried to use that as a reason to convince me to leave: Yahoo has way too many managers. We need more of them to leave. Yahoo is in way too many products. We need to cut a lot of those. Yahoo has bought a lot of startups, and former CEOs rarely make happy long-term employees. On the whole, the resignations are a good thing, from where I'm sitting. Yahoo's a VERY big company, and it's structured as this strange conglomerate of smaller teams. Not all orgs are created equal, unfortunately. Some managers are better than others. I've worked in 4 different teams here, and been involved in 1 other product. I've had 6 different direct managers. My experience with each has been different. After one of those experiences, I was about to walk out the door, but they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. On the whole, it's been the best job I've ever had, financially, artistically, and educationally. If you're willing to speak up and pursue what you want to work on, Yahoo's a great place to be. The ceiling is very high for engineers, especially if you're really into PHP or C++ or Javascript.