[mtoddh]

Funny, from the title, I thought I'd read the article and end up wanting to defend all of Mayer's policy (the intent of which seems right), but then you see quotes like:

Job applicants often go through the interview process, then "wait and wait," said one executive who recently left Yahoo. "One person we wanted waited eight weeks, then they inevitably got another offer."

It seems like at this point, Yahoo would want to streamline their hiring process as much as possible to bring good engineers on as quickly (and painlessly) as possible. And have that be an asset in terms of recruiting. I've had friends complain about this "wait and no response" sort of thing when interviewing with Google, but they're more willing to put up with it, because hey, it's Google.

[itsdrewmiller]

If that guy didn't get another offer until 8 weeks later, it was probably not a huge loss for Yahoo.

[seivan]

I suspect your reading comprehension is broken. Just because the person in question didn't take another job after 8 weeks doesn't mean he didn't have offers waiting.