[georgemcbay]

Regardless of whether her premise is sound, if reports of a hire taking 8 weeks are accurate, she really needs to get that time down. I know 4chan/reddit style memes aren't popular here, but "Ain't nobody (worth hiring) got time for that (waiting for Yahoo to finally make an offer)".

I don't think the strategy she appears to be employing is 100% bad, but I think it is greatly hampered by the fact that Yahoo is not an inherently desirable place to work. They need to do a far better job of making a public display of why you would want to work for Yahoo, because I know a lot of very good software engineers and none of them , to my knowledge, view Yahoo as a desirable place to work and you'd have to be an absolute dream job to have the ability to make people wait months.

[rdouble]

This approach worked at Google. However, as you point out, it does seem like there is a fundamental problem. Yahoo! is not pre-IPO Google. Or post IPO Google. It's not even pre-IPO Yahoo! What skilled programmer with good grades from a top university is even considering employment at Yahoo! ?

[jack-r-abbit]

Maybe one that sees the risk/reward to be pretty equal to (if not better than) that of some random unknown startup?