It's no longer shameful to work at Yahoo

http://betabeat.com/2013/07/its-no-longer-shameful-to-work-at-yahoo-yahoo-employee-insists/

by agranzel • 13 years ago

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lsiebert4• 13 years ago

When was it shameful to work there?

finnh• 13 years ago

Certainly it's less shameful than working at Betabeat, judging by the writing in this article.

lsiebert4• 13 years ago

Not that you are wrong about the writing, but the writing on the article is on par with similar content churn based sites, which has more to say about the collective reader base than the writer, in my opinion. They shouldn't be ashamed, they are writing exactly what they were asked for by their editor.

I turn off adblocking on long form well-written articles in order to support real writing for just this reason, though I wish there was an automatic way to do that.

edit: yes than, not then, and also churn, not church. That's what I get for writing on my phone.

sbierwagen2• 13 years ago

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

ckdarby• 13 years ago

How does this get on hacker news -_-

nickporter• 13 years ago

Yahoo probably wants to hire devs.

bitops• 13 years ago

Enough people upvoted it for it to make the front page. If you don't think it's appropriate, flag it and move on.

sbierwagen2• 13 years ago

I used to flag dumb submissions, but since that was usually half the front page, a mod disabled my flag button.

lsiebert4• 13 years ago

Anyway, I went to a recruitment event for Yahoo Mail recently. They had a lot of people from Oracle who came, ancedotally, but their back-end is Java, so that isn't hugely surprising.

etfb• 13 years ago

Maybe I'm being unfair, but my immediate response to that headline was the traditional response to the statement "size doesn't matter":

"Oh." [Pat, pat.] "Did somebody tell you that, dear?"

It's no longer shameful to work at Yahoo

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