Marissa Mayer Loves Paperwork, And It Is Driving Some People Nuts

She really doesn't trust Yahoo's own management, does she?

Wouldn't be surprised if she was right and Yahoo's current management is indeed mediocre at best, in which case all these 'weird' things she's doing might not be weird after all.

Seems like Marissa is following the cargo cult of old Google. She wants to replicate Google's practices verbatim and I am not sure that is going to work. Google grew and developed some practices organically and some of them could not be scaled and had to be reworked, bringing them to a big company with its own culture and insisting on following them to the letter smells of disaster.

The first 3 steps in the process - leading up to being forwarded to her - are pretty common for large companies. No, that doesn't make it better or worse than the previous system - but it is common. Also, I think that having senior management on the interview panels can be a good thing, as long as the panel is not made up exclusively of senior management. Senior management is more likely to have the "big picture" perspective than the interviewee's peers would.

Yahoo! is hiring???