[refurb]

To anyone who actually bothered to pause and compare Yahoo's culture today to yesterday's, it would be obvious that Marissa's conviction and aptitude is heralding a new era of prosperity;

That is the complete opposite of what I've heard from those still at Yahoo.

[pjwal]

Yes her mandated Quarterly Performance Review system in which managers were forced to put a % of employees in under performing buckets single handedly damaged the moral more than anything in the companies history.

[ajays]

> in which managers were forced to put a % of employees in under performing buckets

... except other managers, of course! ;-)

I'm an ex-Yahoo, and I feel that Yahoo has too many layers of management. Marissa would be well served by reducing the ratio of managers to engineers to something like 1:10 (currently I've heard it's close to 1:3, but that's just rumor and speculation).

[ccvannorman]

Didn't Microsoft do something similar to this in past? Heck there's a Wiki about this type of screwup:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve#Companies_utiliz...