Re:Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units
by prostoalex on Monday February 01, 2016 @09:24PM
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It's a company founded in 1994. A bunch of technologies available today (code management, deployment tools, content management, internal tooling) were not available back in the days, on a bunch of other things (ad serving, support for mobile) the industry has moved forward, but Yahoo! hasn't.
So you're right, a bunch of inefficiencies exist by design, a bunch of them due to the company's age (and to Yahoo!'s credit, their contemporaries like HotBot or Lycos or Excite are gone completely) and need to build certain stuff in-house, and a bunch of it created internally to guarantee job security in some departments.
They've outsourced search and on the Web/media front are doing things that Wordpress.com is doing at much better scale with fewer people, so yeah, there's potential for improvement there.
So you're right, a bunch of inefficiencies exist by design, a bunch of them due to the company's age (and to Yahoo!'s credit, their contemporaries like HotBot or Lycos or Excite are gone completely) and need to build certain stuff in-house, and a bunch of it created internally to guarantee job security in some departments.
They've outsourced search and on the Web/media front are doing things that Wordpress.com is doing at much better scale with fewer people, so yeah, there's potential for improvement there.