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Sorry, so she raised comfort of some employees (which developer "on a mission to save a company" really needs free food instead of interesting challenges?) and decreased the ability to hire top talent by introducing other employee-unfriendly policies like banning remote work, i.e. working while living on Hawaii, giving superb motivation to stay at Yahoo and see it prosper. The rest seems more like a COO would do and not a strategic CEO. It is still fact that a little team of 5 can accomplish huge things, yet they weren't able to recruit any, while blowing insane money on useless acquihires. And also looking at technical decisions like replacing Netty with node.js in their infrastructure and resulting 4x slowdown and probably increasing operating costs reeks of following useless fads and really useless management.
parent bitL 10 years ago

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