[plinkplonk]

Yahoo India was pretty bloated, with layer after layer of management with very high salaries and not much to do. Hard to blame anyone for the decision. There were some really good devs embedded in all that lard, hopefully they'll be fine. Five months severance is pretty generous by Indian standards. That said, even very good engineers don't have as many options here as those in SF have, and not as many job opportunities,so I'm sure there are quite a few people feeling desperate today.

(Fwiw, Ms Mayer has been honing this particular axe for a long time now. Rumors have been circulating inside Yahoo India for quite a while now about an impending massacre. The good guys mostly left some time ago.)

PS: I don't work at Yahoo, but I do live in Bangalore and know people who worked there. Fwiw,my friends are all fine,either moved out in time or relocated to the USA etc. fwiw.)

[ErikRogneby]

There aren't as many options anywhere for good engineers as SF. Surely in Bangalore the big firms like Infosys and Wipro are always hiring experienced engineers?

[plinkplonk]

Infosys and co are really body shoppers and working at such places isn't comparable to working at a product company. The pay, working conditions, project quality etc are (relatively) terrible.

[praneshp]

The comment that there aren't many opportunities is wrong. If you're good and have been working at yahoo you'll find another job easily. But Infosys and Wipro are body shops, that's not a natural progress from working at Yahoo.

[golgappi]

They pay peanuts

[eitally]

How much do product companies like Yahoo pay in India?

[golgappi]

A bit more than twice the amount large consultancies pay. And these large consultancies recruit tens of thousands of employees every year, as opposed to product companies that have a total on a few thousand employees.

India is a very tough place to make a good wage even if heavily skilled. There's a lot of demand, sure. But there's an overload of supply.

[pdevr]

There were some really good devs embedded in all that lard, hopefully they'll be fine.

Almost all the comments posted below the original local blog post (which the TechCrunch post links to) are job offers, so I guess at least some of them will be fine.

[gcb0]

you can say that about any company. any office. google headquarter is full of layers of management with little to do. etc.

the problem with this news is that yahoo, instead of evaluating those layers and managers, took the lazy aproach. then being close to revenue deadlines, made it look twice as lazy.

firing useless layers of management is good. laying off with BS excuses is not.

for example, they laid off people not working well on their instant messager in carsbard, as the article states. but instead of saying so, they called it office cuts, and made life hell for the few folks there working very well from there but not in the lazy team.

and the more random layoffs (as opposed to honest message that some team didnt work out) the good guys get scared and leave, causing more bad guy to be "laid off" in a vicious cycle

[seanflyon]

> you can say that about any company

Different companies have dramatically different amounts of management.

[gcb0]

after they are over some 20k non-manual labor employees, its all in the median for my comment to apply

[seanflyon]

> its all in the median for my comment to apply

I don't know what this means.