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Comment by phamilton | Hacker News Reader

At Yahoo in 2016, layoffs were announced as "planned" in an earnings call and they happened department by department, always on Wednesdays. This was right around when Blind got popular (but before each post was just whining about TC) and so every Wednesday morning we'd all check Blind to see which teams got hit this week.

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The really hilarious thing is no matter how far down Yahoo continues to sink they will always have at least my dad and those who refuse to use anything other than Yahoo Finance in the foreseeable future to keep them somewhat afloat.

Edit: for the record this is not a slant against those who use Yahoo Finance. Even back when I used it in high school it was good.

Yahoo finance is a good product. I use it and keep looking for replacements in case something good pops up, but it’s good for now.

Made a slight edit, did not mean to imply it was a bad service in any way.

Yahoo Finance is like their 1 really good product.

Yahoo is still very popular in Japan, especially the Auctions site.

I left Yahoo in 2011, I remember layoffs being dysfunctional, but it seems like they really leant into it. My favorite was when they announced layoffs in November, and couldn't figure out who to lay off until after the deadline for finalizing the company holiday party, so I got to see some of my colleagues who had been laid off for a couple weeks at the party.

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