CEO of Yahoo has the most incredible laugh
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Well..... Um....
That was.......
Errr.....
Unique.
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well that's a little scary
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That was disturbing...
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Creepy.
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Did I just listen to someone have a stroke?
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You know I was always interested in working at Yahoo. I wanted to go there more than most Internet companies.... until she took the reigns. Her close minded, short sighted policies made Yahoo a place that went from the top of my list to one I didn't bother to talk to. I might be unique (this is often the case) but to at least some segment of their desired hiring pool, she made the company go from highly attractive to unable to attract talent.
I only know one thing about her.... she took over the company and made people go from loving working there to unwilling to do so.
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Yeah her policies are rather silly. Plus the "no working from home" combined with her personal nursery for her kids was a bit of a slap in the face to other working mothers.
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@Nic said:
Yeah her policies are rather silly. Plus the "no working from home" combined with her personal nursery for her kids was a bit of a slap in the face to other working mothers.
Yup. Yahoo used to be a bastion of a great work environment for the most competitive tech people. Now it is a place to work when you weren't able to find work elsewhere. That her policies are silly and uneven makes her a CEO you don't respect either. You don't want to work for her because you don't want her to succeed. Yahoo shot themselves in the foot hiring her.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I only know one thing about her.... she took over the company and made people go from loving working there to unwilling to do so.
Article on her and Yahoo here http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/18/can-marissa-mayer-save-yahoo
It doesn't sound like she took over a company where people loved working there - quite the opposite. I mainly hate Yahoo because they've screwed up Flickr.
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Yahoo. The most annoying laugh and the most annoying search engine.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Article on her and Yahoo here http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/18/can-marissa-mayer-save-yahoo
It doesn't sound like she took over a company where people loved working there - quite the opposite. I mainly hate Yahoo because they've screwed up Flickr.
Maybe, but it was a place that people were interested in working at and she started making it public that things were going to go down hill rapidly. So some people who used to consider it, stopped considering it because of her. And to make it a good place to work you have to do more than improve how things are internally, you have to attract talent. If her first action was to reduce talent attraction as well as making it worse to work there internally she's moving in the wrong direction.
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I've heard it hinted at (since they are under NDAs) that google is not a good place to work at anymore either. But they can't say exactly why. Heck I think even the interviews their are under NDA. Kinda odd if you ask me.
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I've never wanted to work for any of these big internet companies. They all sound like grim places to work.
Actually, I wouldn't have minded putting up with it for a year, so I can spend the rest of my career saying "when I was at Google/Yahoo/Amazon...." and boring/impressing people (delete as appropriate).
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I've heard it hinted at (since they are under NDAs) that google is not a good place to work at anymore either. But they can't say exactly why. Heck I think even the interviews their are under NDA. Kinda odd if you ask me.
Their NDA itself is like an announcement that they are not a good place to work. You never, ever put a gag order on employees to not talk about whether a place is nice to work or not unless it is not a nice place to work. If Google was a good place to work they would want everyone to know.
Google is scary enough that I won't even interview there. They aren't on a list of acceptable companies to work at and I always see them on someone's resume as a less than stellar place to have been because it means that someone took a job based on marketing and not on knowing anything about the company's reputation meaning either they were desperate or that they were unaware of what the NDA meant - which should be pretty obvious.
Since you have to sign the NDA to even interview, Google decides that the best people won't even get to the willing to interview stage with them.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I've never wanted to work for any of these big internet companies. They all sound like grim places to work.
Actually, I wouldn't have minded putting up with it for a year, so I can spend the rest of my career saying "when I was at Google/Yahoo/Amazon...." and boring/impressing people (delete as appropriate).
I've interviewed with Amazon and Facebook and both seemed pretty decent. Good tech, happy people, neat projects, nice environments. Google to me feels scary and creepy and I don't really want them on my resume. I'd love to work for Microsoft but their interviewing process was so slow that we never made connections - no one would be on the market long enough for MS to get around to interviewing them. I have no idea how they hire anyone.
I work for an Internet company now and it is awesome. Best job ever.
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I started sleeping five hours a night a few years ago based on her suggestion; I've felt like shit ever since.
