[orangethirty]

I talk to a lot of them through email and they are not very convinced of the new management. They are just scared that she will go on a firing bent when financial goals are not acquired. They won't cut the management fluff or even take pay cuts. They will fire the people that write the code.

[greghinch]

Do they have any basis for those fears? I mean founded in her actions since coming on board. Clearly past Yahoo policies would justify those fears, but I don't see any signs that she would just arbitrarily cut engineering over management to meet financial goals.

The one "negative" thing she's done since coming on board is cut remote working, and I'm not convinced that was really so bad. Yahoo needed fix some internal stuff about the culture, and it would be hard to do that when your talented people are spread out all over the place. I agree that the management fluff needs a serious trimming there, so hopefully by bringing all the engineering talent in house, and theoretically trimming management, they can adjust the culture to be more engineering focused, which is what everyone wants.