What do Yahoos think of Marissa's letter to employees announcing the acquisition ?
Yeah it was all nice and fluffy until she wrote AOL
Yea.. But it wasn't in our letter Seriously
I think it is complete BS. She failed and is walking off with $50M.
50m is pretty much her retirement. She's not getting a job as a CEO again. I hope.
I hope after the failures of Marissa Mayer, Elizabeth Holmes, Ellen Pao, Christy Wyatt, Christina Domecq, Meg Whitman, et al that boards are reconsidering appointing female CEOs as shining examples of diversity.
I hope they stop appointing them just because they are women and instead because they are the most qualified candidate. Not to say these women specifically were not qualified, but it seems to be a trend to hire a diverse candidate just for diversity's sake instead of for talent/ability
She didn't have much to work with, gotta give that to her. However, through her leadership, Yahoo continued to not innovate. Zilch. Not one single thing. So, what do you expect. She changed the logo, (wow), and got rid of WFH, (kool), fired a bunch of idiots, (good), but obviously retained the rest of the idiots to ensure the company didn't come up with one thing that the world looked at and said - wow, that is awesome. Every second you don't innovate, your life blood flows away.
AOL is still alive? How's their modem Internet business doing?
A coward
Funny, everybody who knows what went wrong does not work there.
Marissa Mayer is living proof that some women are undeserving beneficiaries of tech's lopsided gender ratio. All she did was wear a designer wardrobe, breastfeed in office & abundance of magazine features. All the other CEOs since Jerry got booted at least had a plan. She did damage to all the women who try to work their way up based merit, not dress sense. She is the Paris Hilton of tech - a celeb for celebratory's sake.
What the fuck are you talking about? She had a proven track record of success at Google and under slightly different circumstances could have been CEO of Google. She had a plan for Yahoo but was ultimately not aggressive enough. The people I know at Yahoo are happier with her than before her. Yes she didn't succeed in saving Yahoo but it's not exactly easy to catch a falling knife. She tried a lot of things and unfortunately they didn't work. That wasn't all her fault. Yahoo has a pretty low bar for talent and had already lost most of their best engineers and product people well before she came in.
^couldnt be more false. Yahoo has very high hiring standards, even better than LinkedIn. You need at least a 3.5 GPA to even be employed there. As someone who's been interning here for almost 3 months, the problem is that way too many developers are working on maintaining existing stuff and not too many on innovation. I'm just literally like why don't you do this? Why don't you do that everyday. E.g. Cloud Computing. Yahoo had the technologies over 10 years ago but never tried to profit off it like Amazon did. Leadership is the problem, honestly.
Wow AOL.. So impressive.