Comments on: 150 People http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/02/150-people/ I learn something new every day Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:33:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Adam http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/02/150-people/comment-page-1/#comment-6346 Adam Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:44:25 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/02/150-people/#comment-6346 >> How do you make sure that folks are all marching the same direction and that there aren’t 3 teams working on the same thing (My Web, Delicious and Y! Bookmarks for example). So Y! has asked the question - but doesn't really seem like we've made an attempt to answer it. Is there any planned Y! consolidation coming? >> How do you make sure that folks are all marching the same direction and that there aren’t 3 teams working on the same thing (My Web, Delicious and Y! Bookmarks for example).

So Y! has asked the question - but doesn’t really seem like we’ve made an attempt to answer it. Is there any planned Y! consolidation coming?

]]> By: Erik Schwartz http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/02/150-people/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Erik Schwartz Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:01:50 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/02/150-people/#comment-404 I was about #203. I left when it stopped feeling like a fast moving start up and started feeling like a big company. The straw that broke the camel's back was when I was told by my newly hired manager that if I didn't hire x more people by the end of the quarter (despite the fact that we didn't have enough engineering to support the people and products we already had) his group would lose the headcount and he wanted his group to be bigger than Doug's group. I was about #203.

I left when it stopped feeling like a fast moving start up and started feeling like a big company. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when I was told by my newly hired manager that if I didn’t hire x more people by the end of the quarter (despite the fact that we didn’t have enough engineering to support the people and products we already had) his group would lose the headcount and he wanted his group to be bigger than Doug’s group.

]]> By: Marcus http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/02/150-people/comment-page-1/#comment-393 Marcus Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:35:04 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/02/150-people/#comment-393 My last day with Yahoo! will be next Tuesday, after 6.5 years. I think I was employee 18XX or something. But in the London office, where I spent all of those 6.5 years, there are only <b>three people</b> left who have been there longer than me. One of the main reasons why I am leaving is that I am not sure Yahoo! has found any answers to those organisational questions. It may ask itself constantly. "How do we organise for 10,000 people?" or "How do we organise for an increasingly complex global business?". But the only answer it seems to come up with is "Let's do a matrix". For anybody who has not read it, I recommend the <a href="http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5380483" title="The New Organisation" rel="nofollow">recent survey in The Economist</a> on the new organisation. If you know Yahoo! you will recognise how far it may be behind the times. My last day with Yahoo! will be next Tuesday, after 6.5 years. I think I was employee 18XX or something. But in the London office, where I spent all of those 6.5 years, there are only three people left who have been there longer than me.
One of the main reasons why I am leaving is that I am not sure Yahoo! has found any answers to those organisational questions. It may ask itself constantly. “How do we organise for 10,000 people?” or “How do we organise for an increasingly complex global business?”. But the only answer it seems to come up with is “Let’s do a matrix”.
For anybody who has not read it, I recommend the recent survey in The Economist on the new organisation. If you know Yahoo! you will recognise how far it may be behind the times.

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