I know many former Yahoos work in other companies nowadays as there has been a huge exodus for many years! Honestly , how does other companies value a Yahoo person looking for engineering job? Considering the person is a top performer rock start ic6-ic7 level Yahoo! Should they easily find a job?
What does Yahoo even do anymore? Search that nobody uses? Maintenance of abandoned email accounts from 10+ years ago? News with crappy UI, rehashed tweets, and 99% Republican troll commenters? This is all I can even think of.
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Yeah but on what platform? Search? Email? News? Anecdotally, the only of those that any decent amount of people still use are news and finance. They are lucky the default iOS stocks app uses Yahoo Finance on the back end. Probably one of the few things that keeps them going.
Judging someone based on the company they come from is just stupid. There are some rockstar performers at places like Yahoo that just haven’t left for one reason or another.
Yea. This 100%. I’ve seen people stay at a sinking ship for all sorts of reason. If we were hiring you as a business analyst that failed to realize Yahoo has been sinking all these years maybe but if you’re an engineer and was getting relevant experience and your skills are current nobody cares other then maybe your lunch Interview might want to hear gossip about what it’s like on the inside.
Layoffs are just part the tech industry. 15 years ago, Yahoo was the big guy on the block...thats not that long ago. For an entire generation, yahoo and AOL were people's first introduction to email and even the Internet. Software is volatile unlike any other type of engineering - in an instant, you can have 100 competitors doing what you do, differently and/or better. It's what you're capable of, not who you've worked for. There is something to be said about the different hiring practices, but still, some jackasses get through. In the bay area, titles don't mean anything - someone may have a senior director title but manages 2 people...meaningless.
Doesn’t matter what level you are at - I have seen many at yahoo promoted for no reason - it’s retention and politics at the same time. So that’s unfortunate - I would not look at levels - I will only care for what you know and place you accordingly and your knowledge is yours - company doesn’t matter