Implications Of Yahoo-MSFT merger

[Joshua Zeidner]

On 2/1/08, Kristian Erik Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2008 12:52 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> 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