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Re:Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer’s Turnar... by discardorama on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:12PM (#10428311)
"another worried about the ability of managers to stanch the flow of valued employees."

That is the problem right there: shitty managers at Yahoo. I spent a few years there, and despite being in the industry for many years, I've yet to find a more dysfunctional setup. Managers have absolutely zero accountability at Yahoo. In any other place, if engineers start leaving a manager, it would be cause for concern; if too many do so, the manager is axed. But in Yahoo, shitty managers hang around, hopping from project to project, biding their time till they can find a new project to shit on.

And the tech stack?!? Don't even get me started.

Yahoo needs to cut out its management layers, and reduce the manager headcount by 75%. Only then will it start turning around.

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Re:Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer’s Turnar... by swagswag on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:40PM (#10428516)
what is the tech stack...
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Re:Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer’s Turnar... by cloakandswagger on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:22PM (#10429205)
Primarily Yahoo Pipes with a PHP and COBOL backend. All stored in Microsoft SourceSafe, if the project you're working on is even using a VCS.
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Re:Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer’s Turnar... by kaonashi on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:38PM (#10429809)
> Microsoft SourceSafe

is that still a nightmare to work with remotely?

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Re:Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer’s Turnar... by deciplex on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:59PM (#10430005)
I don't know if you're serious.
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Re:Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer’s Turnar... by cscurmudgeon on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:56PM (#10430328)
He is bad at joking. E.g. Where do you think Hadoop comes from?
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Re:Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer’s Turnar... by vidoc on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:37PM (#10429289)
> And the tech stack?!? Don't even get me started.

To me, technical mediocrity at yahoo is the number one problem.

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