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I can't and won't speak to any supposed trends, but Marissa got "side-lined" because she was despised by nearly everybody. She mistreated everyone who answered
by heretohelp 14y ago
I can't and won't speak to any supposed trends, but Marissa got "side-lined" because she was despised by nearly everybody.
She mistreated everyone who answered to her or met with her in a meeting for years on end, the upper-ups' patience for that understandably evaporated. They gave her the best they could manage at the time, which was to shelve her so she wouldn't keep pissing people off.
- saraid216 14y agoThat's completely understandable if true, but it's something we only have your word on. Makes her Yahoo! role more interesting, if nothing else.
- wololo 14y agofyi http://www.quora.com/Marissa-Mayer-Named-Yahoo-CEO-July-2012/How-was-Marissa-Mayer-viewed-within-Google http://www.quora.com/Marissa-Mayer-Named-Yahoo-CEO-July-2012...
- saraid216 14y agoReading through those responses, the answer seems to generally be "HN is wrong: she was not especially rude."
- heretohelp 14y agoThe Quora response to the general subject that usually gets quoted is excusing her egregious inability to play nice with others by leaning on her putative intellect. That's not a rejection of the picture painted of what it was like to work with her by (multiple) others. I've worked with smart people who were unable to listen or otherwise interact with others. It was pure hell. If she was like that, I'm confident most Googlers who had any skin in the game (meaning, they weren't her peer or superior to whom she was pleasant and respectful, but someone who answered to her at some level) were happy to see her go.