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Oh really, what field / subfield are you in? Do they have an east coast research lab or are the people you know moving to the west coast?

They had a huge brain drain of their research lab like 4 years ago after some past company turmoil. Andrei Broder and dozens of other researchers left.

They might be building it up again, but I feel it's unfortunate for those being hired, because research is usually one of the first things to get cut when a company is in financial difficulty. Research is long term, and Yahoo doesn't appear to have a long term plan unfortunately.