On 2/1/08, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > On Feb 1, 2008 12:52 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > Without a doubt- the Linux world just made a major shift towards all > > things Google. I would be interested to know if Yahoo is moving to > > .NET. > > > > Any other prognostications out there? > > I interviewed with Yahoo in December at the Santa Clara office, which > would have been a web app sec position working for a guy who works > with Rasmus. The interview went fine, but then there was a huge > problem stirring. The recruiter and HR were flustered, and I think > they knew at that time that Yahoo was going to lay off all those > people, so they apologized for wasting my time. I even got a nice > email from them say, "we are so sorry, but things have been hectic > around here...we messed up...blah blah blah...etc..." It was a really > weird atmosphere too. Almost like the guy I interviewed with knew I > was interviewing for a position that was never going to be available. > He forgot to greet me at the receptionist, and I waited for over an > hour. They sent me to the wrong office, I called back, they told me I > was in the right office. It was a very interesting experience... For some time Yahoo has been following Google's trail, and not too successfully. The last thing I looked at closely from them was their new Map API. It was a slow, poorly designed, knockoff of the Gmaps API. At that point I figured Yahoo was running into problem. -jmz --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss