The secret hiring of Marissa Mayer: How Yahoo kept it all under wraps.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-18/help-us-marissa-mayer-dot-you-re-our-only-hope

by Brajeshwar • 14 years ago

60 18 14 years ago

I was surprised she didn't have some kind of non-compete with Google, but they are illegal/unenforceable in CA, right? (I'm on the East Coast so pardon my lack of knowledge).

saraid216• 14 years ago

Wikipedia agrees with your memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California

samstave3• 14 years ago

What if Sergei and Larry WANT her to go to Yahoo. Not to "compete" but to build it out in some other way, to build it as a service that google can then acquire.

She can go there to experiment on ideas that maybe even google had internally but couldn't risk to do with google viewers...

adventureful2• 14 years ago

There has been talk about Google stealing Yahoo back away from Microsoft on an ad deal, so that would also be another reason. It could be worth hundreds of millions per year to land that deal with Yahoo. The legal hurdles are huge though.

pasbesoin2• 14 years ago

My thoughts ran to whether Google might want (in part) to ensure that credible competition exists/continues. There's been a lot of "monopoly" language and perhaps imminent regulation flying about.

sabat• 14 years ago

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Sergei and Larry wanted her gone, period. She has had a lackluster career at Google, and they may have gladly watched her move out of the way.

caycep• 14 years ago

hmm....wait a minute...being passed over for SVP...going to yahoo....SHE'S THEIR NEW LUCA BRASI!!!

rg• 14 years ago

Non-competes are totally unenforceable in CA as a condition of employment. If you sell your startup to an acquirer, the contract can include a non-compete subject to fairly strict conditions of reasonableness.

gringomorcego• 14 years ago

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-go...

Until those companies apologize to every existing employee, I have absolutely no loyalty to them.

If they can't even let the free market decide the value of the programmer why should I have any fucking allegiance to any of them?

I can only hope she and others get the competitive salary they deserve.

samstave3• 14 years ago

Are you one of the 5 engineers?

adventureful2• 14 years ago

In an actual free market, collusion between companies is legal and occurs regularly.

You're talking about a regulated market in which labor is protected by government intervention from collusion between companies.

shiven• 14 years ago

In an actual free market, collusion between companies is legal and occurs regularly.

That statement needs to be corrected as:

In an actual free-for-all market, collusion between companies is legal and occurs regularly.

And, ditto for bribery.

glesica• 14 years ago

That's not the way "free market" is understood by the vast majority of people. In your version of a free market murder is also a common business strategy. Google could just kill any engineer who dares to work for a competitor.

No one wants to live in a world like that. So when we say "free market", we mean a market with an agreed-upon set of rules that everyone is aware of and that are generally followed and enforced.

dasil003• 14 years ago

I don't think Marissa Mayer is worried that she might not be, or have been, fairly compensated.

warech• 14 years ago

This tagline is misleading. A single paragraph discusses "How Yahoo kept it all under wraps" while the rest of the article is an also-ran discussion about Mayer's potential success/failure at Yahoo.

The secret hiring of Marissa Mayer: How Yahoo kept it all under wraps.

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