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I interviewed at Yahoo and I didn't think it was that bad. I met some really cool/smart people and the technologies that they showcased were, again, really cool
by hackoder 16y ago
I interviewed at Yahoo and I didn't think it was that bad. I met some really cool/smart people and the technologies that they showcased were, again, really cool.
I felt very little difference between the engineering culture at Yahoo vs other "popular" companies. And Yahoo's products are good- think YUI, Yahoo Mail (client side stuff), Hadoop, etc.
They asked me one thing that Yahoo! could improve upon and I suggested that they focus on making one service really really great, which can then, in turn, drive traffic to other services. And to drop poking their head into everything (My yahoo, groups, games, social networking etc can be dropped).
Its sad to see how Yahoo's value has fallen recently, since internally it seemed very vibrant and had the kind of atmosphere I would've liked to work in.
- raganwald 16y agoYou're describing Yahoo's engineering culture. Have you looked into their management culture?
- ahi 16y agoFor some reason Yahoo has incredibly talented engineers, all working on things that don't make Yahoo any money. When it comes to the paycheck, Yahoo is just a web publisher; not much more tech focused than AOL or IAC.
- kscaldef 16y agoFor some reason Yahoo has incredibly talented engineers, all working on things that don't make Yahoo any money My observation was that that was because the divisions that did make money were a cesspool of internal politics, back-stabbing, and constant re-orgs and re-writes as different managers gained power. For a while Yahoo held onto some good engineers in those divisions by throwing lots of money at them, but in the long run I think that just enabled those engineers to negotiate fat compensation packages at other companies.