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Yahoo Decides to Fire Its Brightest Tech Minds. Facebook Will Gladly Take Them.

pandodaily.com

35 pointsjustinhj10 comments

"If Facebook wants a team so badly that its very busy CEO who is about to take his company public is spending his time personally courting them, maybe it’s worth keeping."

Or maybe its simply that Yahoo! doesn't know how/isn't organizational able to utilize this resource.

Which then begs the question, why have these research folks stuck around all this time given the fluidity of the job market?

Another linkbaity unsourced article by Lacy.

PandoDaily was apparently created to give TechCrunch a run for its money in the linkbait department. I've absolutely no idea why any real geek would go there for news.

It's always sad to see once great companies gow down the drain like this, no matter how well deserved it may be.

My theory why they didn't leave: There are companies that can develop some kind of "gravity" (for lack of a better word) that keeps people stuck even if it would be better to get away. It almost seems that's this is a heritage of the glory days gone by. And if the decline is kind of flat, you can end up needing a major wake-up call to realize where au finally arrived.

>It's always sad to see once great companies gow down the drain like this, no matter how well deserved it may be.

Well, a company is a just a collection of people. And since these people are moving on, they're going to go on creating cool stuff. Better to have companies dissolve like this than people with good ideas to stagnate in a dying office.

Yeah, you're right. Maybe I'm just a little bit sentimental about a service I prefered a long time over Google...

But like the chinese say: Every crisis is an opportunity (or something like that :-))

Hiring machine learning experts? One of my Yahoo! friends (a Ph.D. in ML) is looking for an opportunity. I've sent him a few leads, but I'll point him to this comment if there are any good responses. There's no reason he shouldn't expand his search beyond the obvious choices.

Google's always hiring.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/index.html

I'm a co-founder and chief architect at NewsCred. I'd love to have a chat with your friend. He can email me at asif AT newscred DOT com.

Realy you should not say "fire" when you mean "made redundant" the former if untrue is profesional slander.

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