Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by eganist on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:23PM (#11810371)

Hah, I didn't expect my implied criticism (elsewhere in this thread) of a Yahoo VP being hired as their CEO to be so damningly validated by personal experience.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by throwaway59511 on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:32PM (#11810446)

I don't understand. What about Yahoo VPs would lead you to expect the experience I had?

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by 808statetaway on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @06:32PM (#11810804)

Good rule of thumb is that people from Yahoo or Sun are extremely nonproductive and tend to spend most of their time preparing powerpoint presentations for internal use.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by bcantrill on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @07:16PM (#11811025)

In my experience, the deadwood at Sun actually became deadwood at Oracle; most of the folks who left Sun (disclosure: includes me) were the ones who were drawn to Sun first and foremost by its mission, and since leaving they have gone on to interesting things elsewhere. So while there are certainly companies that are red flags for me, Sun isn't one of them -- and I say this as someone who knows Sun's failings better than most...

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by mathattack on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @07:29PM (#11811093)

The purchase was 6+ years ago, and the deadwood is still there?

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by bcantrill on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @07:58PM (#11811212)

Absolutely! It is, after all, deadwood -- and given that it's broadly resistant to Oracle's management-by-asphyxiation, it will likely be there for quite some time to come...

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by shemnon42 on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @08:38PM (#11811359)

Can confirm, although the asphyxiation often comes from a level or two up.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by mathattack on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @07:53AM (#11813631)

What do you mean by "Oracle's management-by-asphyxiation"?

And is it that Oracle has such marketplace strength that it can get away with holding the deadwood? I had heard that Oracle was a very competitive place.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by Zelmor on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @08:37AM (#11813857)

"Too big to fail" market attitude, I guess.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by mathattack on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:11AM (#11814058)

"Too big to fail" usually involves outsiders (government) propping up companies. (Think GM or Bank of America) I don't think the government is propping up Oracle.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by anexprogrammer on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:08AM (#11812168)

Deadwood manages to stay, unnoticed by management, for decades. Most companies of a size has plenty, the body-shops (EDS etc) seem to consist of mainly deadwood.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by mathattack on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @07:52AM (#11813625)

True - if the deadwood can still be billed out, it lasts.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by jazzyk on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:17AM (#11815022)

A lot of the deadwood is management :-)

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by huxley on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @08:04AM (#11813680)

Sad, Scott McNealy was reputed to have banned Powerpoints in 1997 for pretty much that reason.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by praneshp on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @06:41PM (#11810847)

He was at Yahoo for barely a year and a half.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by yuhong on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @07:12PM (#11811001)

Looks like he was bought in as part of the Dapper acquisition: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesberiker

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