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Maybe Twitter/Yahoo should team up or Snapchat. Get these teens some ads. Yahoo's mobile strategy is a struggle, maybe some partnerships are in order. I honestly believe Mayer could do it but since none of their apps are FB/Instagram/WhatsApp nor do they have the traction as these juggernauts, I'd suggest a partnership. Come on Yahoo. Find a niche, make some money. Losing these talented people. Maybe it's because the…
I'm curious: how bad is it to leave a new job soon after starting (because you realize the product isn't as great as what you thought it would be/too much competition in space)? When you are a high performer, you really don't want to waste everyone's time if you end up in this bad situation. What is the professional thing to do? Asking because the article mentioned some people staying only for a few weeks. In a small…
I'd say it depends on why. My personal experience is a cto totally lied about a job. I was hired to do ml and ended up being a generic backend dev; nothing I worked on required any ml knowledge. I quit after 8 weeks. Oddly enough, the cto -- an early google engineer too -- was very butthurt. He told me I was childish for expecting the job description to match the job; I told him he was a liar and that was the end of…
Seems like he should have been head of marketing, not technology.
Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the whole "work in our offices or quit" memo sent to virtual employees a while back not paying the dividends she had hoped. Adding insult to injury, perhaps her build-out of a full private nursery in the executive suite staffed with her personal nannies while simultaneously requiring staff to stop working remotely, even part time, had a deleterious impact on morale and w…
> Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the whole "work in our offices or quit" memo sent to virtual employees a while back not paying the dividends she had hoped. I really doubt it. The "no work from home" edict applied to about 150 employees total; and the vast majority of them were deservedly kicked out. There were a handful who were doing a tremendous job, and the were allowed to WFH.
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So fire the people who are abusing it, along with people working on site who aren't hitting the performance Yahoo wants. Don't tar everyone with the same brush
The problem with this is, how would she know who was abusing the work-from-home facility and who was not? Mayer would have to rely on the dinosaur of Yahoo middle-management, which at best is a self-serving beast. Mayer did not trust them, and hence her fiat action of banning working from home.
Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the whole "work in our offices or quit" memo sent to virtual employees a while back not paying the dividends she had hoped. Adding insult to injury, perhaps her build-out of a full private nursery in the executive suite staffed with her personal nannies while simultaneously requiring staff to stop working remotely, even part time, had a deleterious impact on morale and w…
> Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the whole "work in our offices or quit" memo sent to virtual employees a while back not paying the dividends she had hoped. I really doubt it. The "no work from home" edict applied to about 150 employees total; and the vast majority of them were deservedly kicked out. There were a handful who were doing a tremendous job, and the were allowed to WFH.
One of the most visible signs of Yahoo's weakness was its strategy to hire big media stars...I'm aware that Yahoo News brings in a godly amount of pageviews to articles on its site...but that hasn't translated to giving a more noticeable platform for its media stars. Since Yahoo hired Katie Couric, who was once a huge star on network news, the most I've seen her name in the wild is in Reddit ads promoting her intervi…
These hires were part of Yahoo's content creation strategy which also included producing TV shows. They just wrote off $42 million for the TV shows[1]. These expensive celebrities are probably next as I doubt they can justify their cost on a shrinking platform. [1] http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/yahoo-misses-q3-earning...
I've always thought the best play for Yahoo would have been to swing right and become a "Fox News" of the internets.
All of these tech/acquihires and throwing good money at Stanford/Google pedigree will not work. Yahoo does not have the culture, infrastructure or the talent to compete with Google/Facebook or become a Netflix. They are far behind on many fronts and instead of investing in areas that will be hard for them to compete, they should invest in areas that they are already successful (Fantasy sports, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance).
The millennials who have already decided Yahoo is not cool are not going to change their mind because of SNL episodes, community or Katie Couric. Mayer needs to understand this.
OK, armchair CEOs: how would you turn Yahoo ! around?
Then I would swing right and turn Yahoo into the Fox News of internets.
Get bunch of Radio talk show hosts and conservative commentators, give them multiple platforms and let them loose.
Get some cheap TLC reality shows that are exclusive and really try an appeal to Yahoo's current demographics.
Instead of trying to appeal to the educated and affluent already entrenched in Google and Facebook, you invest in what you have and expand that market.
This will create growth and momentum in the company. Once you have that, you compete with Google and Facebook.