Comments on: Exploding the Microsoft-Yahoo-team-up-against-Google myth

By: Rony

Rony — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:42:26 +0000

Hi there,
Me and a couple of other young Engg Graduates are joining Yahoo! very soon.
We are seriously wondering what kind of impact the MS-Y! merger is gonna have on new joiners’ like us, I mean financially, career wise?
Or will the impact be only on the higher end of the Management.
I believe we still need proper exposure in this industry to predict or opine on such a situation.
We would appriciate if u can share ur openion on the above concern.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:58:53 +0000

@Umm, no
Thanks for the counter perspective, it’s what makes interactive websites interesting.

I’m sorry your group isn’t properly resourced. I’ve seen the exact opposite at every point with Yahoo. I’ve never heard funding as the reason why we weren’t accomplishing something. Perhaps it’s the projects and respective management we are working with?

By: Umm, no

Umm, no — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:13:42 +0000

Citing your own blog post hardly counts as evidence of a trend.

I work at Yahoo, and morale in our group was in the toilet. Years of horrific leadership at the VP level and above and nonstop attrition (the bad kind, losing our top people to Google and startups) and then being unable to hire to fill those spots… Then the Microsoft offer became public, and morale has gone up enormously. We’re mad that Yahoo turned down their previous offer!

Why has morale gone up? 1. We expect to benefit financially; not only personally but also our group will finally get proper funding instead of being hamstrung by “penny-wise, pound-foolish” management, XHRC, etc. and 2. Unlike you, we’re keeping an open mind about this and see a lot of possibilities. Yahoo has a lot to teach Microsoft and vice-versa. Yahoo needs to be shaken up and shed a lot of its weak leaders, and an acquisition is just the trick to do that.

If your mind isn’t already completely closed on this, why not go read some of the stuff their own employees write at http://blogs.msdn.com/ or http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/ ? You just might learn something.