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Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

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Re: Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

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Post by davidw »

cmadan wrote: post #18
cmadan wrote: post #5

Sources tell me that they are asking 90% of their staff at Bangalore to relocate to CA instead of laying off them. Not ideal, but better than being laid off.

Just curious, not mad or anything, can anybody let me know why this is being downvoted? I didn't claim that it was factual or anything, just what I heard. What HN etiquette did I break? :)

It's a small-ish "bug" in HN, IMO: there are times when you think something is wrong, and want to downvote it, but ideally would put it at 0, and no lower, because you can tell that it's probably an honest mistake, rather than an attempt to deceive or spread false information.

So people probably think you're wrong.

Re: Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

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Post by ErikRogneby »

plinkplonk wrote: post #2

Yahoo India was pretty bloated, with layer after layer of management with very high salaries and not much to do. Hard to blame anyone for the decision. There were some really good devs embedded in all that lard, hopefully they'll be fine. Five months severance is pretty generous by Indian standards. That said, even very good engineers don't have as many options here as those in SF have, and not as many job opportunit…

There aren't as many options anywhere for good engineers as SF. Surely in Bangalore the big firms like Infosys and Wipro are always hiring experienced engineers?

Re: Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

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Post by golgappi »

ErikRogneby wrote: post #22
plinkplonk wrote: post #2

Yahoo India was pretty bloated, with layer after layer of management with very high salaries and not much to do. Hard to blame anyone for the decision. There were some really good devs embedded in all that lard, hopefully they'll be fine. Five months severance is pretty generous by Indian standards. That said, even very good engineers don't have as many options here as those in SF have, and not as many job opportunit…

There aren't as many options anywhere for good engineers as SF. Surely in Bangalore the big firms like Infosys and Wipro are always hiring experienced engineers?

They pay peanuts

Re: Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

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Post by cubancigar11 »

Thaxll wrote: post #9
cmadan wrote: post #5

Sources tell me that they are asking 90% of their staff at Bangalore to relocate to CA instead of laying off them. Not ideal, but better than being laid off.

Relocating 2000 people with H1B?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8421474 (modders, no need to mod)

Re: Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

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Post by pdevr »

plinkplonk wrote: post #2

Yahoo India was pretty bloated, with layer after layer of management with very high salaries and not much to do. Hard to blame anyone for the decision. There were some really good devs embedded in all that lard, hopefully they'll be fine. Five months severance is pretty generous by Indian standards. That said, even very good engineers don't have as many options here as those in SF have, and not as many job opportunit…

There were some really good devs embedded in all that lard, hopefully they'll be fine.

Almost all the comments posted below the original local blog post (which the TechCrunch post links to) are job offers, so I guess at least some of them will be fine.

Re: Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

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Post by plinkplonk »

ErikRogneby wrote: post #22
plinkplonk wrote: post #2

Yahoo India was pretty bloated, with layer after layer of management with very high salaries and not much to do. Hard to blame anyone for the decision. There were some really good devs embedded in all that lard, hopefully they'll be fine. Five months severance is pretty generous by Indian standards. That said, even very good engineers don't have as many options here as those in SF have, and not as many job opportunit…

There aren't as many options anywhere for good engineers as SF. Surely in Bangalore the big firms like Infosys and Wipro are always hiring experienced engineers?

Infosys and co are really body shoppers and working at such places isn't comparable to working at a product company. The pay, working conditions, project quality etc are (relatively) terrible.

Re: Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

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Post by plinkplonk »

cmadan wrote: post #18
cmadan wrote: post #5

Sources tell me that they are asking 90% of their staff at Bangalore to relocate to CA instead of laying off them. Not ideal, but better than being laid off.

Just curious, not mad or anything, can anybody let me know why this is being downvoted? I didn't claim that it was factual or anything, just what I heard. What HN etiquette did I break? :)

I wouldn't worry about it. There's nothing wrong with your post and haven't broken etiquette as far as I can tell :-).
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