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Looks like everyone gets to milk the Yahoo cash cow - board, investors, business partners, execs, friends of execs and management except engineers. Yahoo still pays engineers terribly hoping to compete with the likes of Google and Facebook. Why don't they just give up at this point and expedite selling. Why bother with all the posturing.

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My information on this is secondhand/word-of-mouth but it is my understanding that at least some engineers at Yahoo have in fact been very handsomely compensated.

A friend of mine involved in offer negotiation at another company who was at one point (this was perhaps 5-6 years ago) trying to poach some high level Yahoo infrastructure folks told me that a lot of senior Yahoo engineers had straight cash compensation packages that rivaled what Google or Facebook would pay in cash + RSUs.

Presumably these were folks involved in directly maintaining core revenue generating ad systems who would be very expensive and painful to lose / replace.

They may be exceptions. I can't imagine engineers at Yahoo are pulling in $400k+. Only engineers who got in through acquisitions have packages comparable to what engineers at Google and Facebook make. Majority of Yahoo engineers make 30-50% less than people of comparable levels at Goog/Fb. Check http://h1bdata.info/

I do not think they are working for yahoo out of loyalty.

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