Used to be where greatness goes to die, but maybe Marissa Mayer can change that
Used to be where greatness goes to die, but maybe Marissa Mayer can change that
Yahoo properties are visited by hundreds of millions of people every day. Compensation is good. Freebies abound.
Yahoo lost almost all of its A-players, thanks to managerial incompetence and territorialism. This eventually infected every part of the company. Winning ideas did not just fail to thrive; they were actively hunted down and killed. Marissa Mayer may be changing all that, finally.
I have no advice other than what Marissa Mayer is doing already. Yahoo needed someone to make tough choices, update the culture and technology, and focus on products again, and that's what she's doing.
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Santa Clara, California, United StatesOctober 1, 2009The phone interview was quite easy. It covered standard algorithm questions, threads, performance analysis of C++ processes on Unix/Linux systems, and some C++ questions on pointers. The 1:1 interview was a little more theoretical, focusing on desig
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Santa Clara, California, United StatesDecember 1, 2010The phone interview focused on specific Java/J2EE technologies. Key questions included: * What is the difference between an interface and an abstract class? * Implement the Fibonacci series. Can you implement it using recursion? Which method is mor
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Sunnyvale, California, United StatesAugust 1, 2011I was contacted by a hiring manager to go over my background and some screening questions, such as race conditions, deadlocks, and C++ concepts. He told me he'd like to schedule an on-site interview, which was set up by their HR department. The on-s
