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Yahoo employee here... AMA

• jason2323 5y ago
  How do you feel about this whole thing?
  • oaththrowaway 5y ago
    I'm not going to stick around
• Avalaxy 5y ago
  What does Yahoo do nowadays?
  • oaththrowaway 5y ago
    Lots of stuff.. Finance is huge, Mail, Sports, Techcrunch, Engadget... Plus the Edgecast CDN and video platform service (VDMS). Was honestly hoping Verizon would keep those so I wasn't lumped into the Apollo sale.
    • basch 5y ago
      That was the most surprising part of this for me. Edgecast/VDMS would make more sense elsewhere than Apollo, like at .. Verizon, or Google.
• ForHackernews 5y ago
  Is Yahoo hiring? How's the pay? I think it'd be kind of fun to work for a zombie Web 1.0 giant in a weird sociological way. My first email address was @yahoo.com -- thank you for losing/forcibly deleting all my embarrassing teenage missives.
  • oaththrowaway 5y ago
    They are hiring (though I suspect this will make recruiting harder), pay is good. Not FAANG good, but Bay area good.
    • astrange 5y ago
      Even in FAANG the AAs pay less (depending on career level.)
• syntheticnature 5y ago
  I've definitely noticed Verizon being more willing to deprecate old services in Yahoo/AOL/Oath over the last few years. Do you expect this to speed up (i.e. leadership was being conservative) or slow down (they were chopping too much/all the chopping should, in theory, be done)?
  • oaththrowaway 5y ago
    If it's not related to 5G, I would expect it to be.. less of a focus
    • astrange 5y ago
      What does it mean for something to be related to 5G? Actually related, or part of the "5G AI cloud" marketing buzzwords that don't seem to mean anything?
      • KirillPanov 5y ago
        Quantum cyber blockchain will beat 5G AI cloud.
• neilsimp1 5y ago
  Will Yahoo answers be coming back under the new ownership? (semi-serious question)
  • oaththrowaway 5y ago
    Doubt it
• mrweasel 5y ago
  Is Yahoo actually turning a profit, if so which service contribute the most? Also, are there any stats explaining why so Yahoo still have so many daily visitors? Is it just result of having a ton of service and then the numbers afe bundled? It seems hard to understand that pages like Yahoo (or msn.com) would attract so many users as the Alexa ranking would suggest.
  • spullara 5y ago
    Comscore ranks Verizon's properties (basically Yahoo/AOL) as the #2 site on the internet as well. https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings
    • initplus 5y ago
      Comscore’s data collection relies on users installing their shady monitoring software - I imagine users who install such software are significantly more likely to have a yahoo email account. Same issue with Alexa ranks.
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