Yahoo employees: Get out now before the vultures descend • Hacker News Board

vbtemp wrote: post #5

I don't understand why Yahoo still exists (or at least why it still gets so much coverage). At this point it's just a cheap knockoff of everything google does. Has anyone ever used Yahoo mail? It's a POS, it's bloated, slow, prone to failure - and it doesn't even work on linux. Same thing for yahoo maps, news, search, etc. I just don't get it.

It can take a long time for large companies to die.

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Post by redrising1 » Sun, Sep 18, 2011, 8:31 AM UTC

Poor Yahoo. It's disapointing to see it go this way.

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Post by deathmatch » Sun, Sep 18, 2011, 8:53 AM UTC

spydum wrote: post #58

Hisoka wrote: post #8

Wouldn't it be wiser to wait until you see if you get fired, so you get the severance package? And if you don't, then get out?

By then the market may be saturated with your former co-workers..

Kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't situation.

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Post by ghostshield11 » Sun, Sep 18, 2011, 10:12 AM UTC

It would be interesting to see someone lay out the complete endgame for Yahoo.

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Post by tealtank » Sun, Sep 18, 2011, 11:17 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #60

uncertain wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really would rather avoid this option. I'm not worried that it'll make me look bad to other employers, but how it will reflect on the team that I was signed up for.

If they can't afford you, it's economics, nothing personal. Nobody works for free.

Right. It's just business.

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Post by cosmicman » Sun, Sep 18, 2011, 11:42 AM UTC

wavephorm wrote: post #2

I remember this type of Schadenfreude during the tech collapse in 2000. People seemed to just love hearing about other people losing their jobs. This editorial certainly has undertones of wanting to accelerate the collapse of Yahoo. Be careful what you wish for.

Completely agree. If Yahoo does manage to turn it around I wouldn't be surprised to find it disapointed people who were secretly wishing for collapse.

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Post by gildedsuit » Sun, Sep 18, 2011, 12:04 PM UTC

thurn wrote: post #91

socratic wrote: post #69

It's weird to see Y! get a lot of hate on HN, because it seems like working there would be a lot like working at a startup. You're trading off risk (will this company exist in n years) for reward (higher salary, greater control over job responsibilities). The best Y! employees also probably have a ton of visibility, working on projects like Hadoop, YUI, YQL, and so on. What's wrong with this analogy?

Well, working at a startup is rewarding because you have a small team of peers, very little bureaucracy or management overhead, no legacy to deal with, etc. I don't think the analogy addresses the core reasons why you'd pick a startup.

Yeah the size differences alone would make them worlds apart.