I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat
Have you ever watched one of those nature shows about sharks (yes, Jaws counts) where they throw chum overboard to attract the sharks before they throw in the divers? Lately it seems like Yahoo! is the boat, the media is doing the chum’ing and other Bay Area companies are the sharks (we already know who plays the role of the divers).
I’ve been getting a lot more recruiting requests lately, including one that explicitly called out “changes at Yahoo!” as a reason for getting in touch with me. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the attention and all. It’s good to know that if I were to accidentally fall off the Yahoo! boat that plenty of sharks would be in the water, ready to…eat me.
On the other hand, it would be nice if the sharks didn’t jump in the boat trying to eat me before Yahoo! casts me over.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:02 am
“Telegram”
http://www.spike.com/video/2802070
January 30th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Man, that’s insane! I hope you job is safe though, you’re a real public fiure of Yahoo! and I’d be sad to learn that they had to quit your job…
Good luck in this bad time
February 16th, 2008 at 2:27 am
HEy…Your post does not say you left. Yahoo has innovation only it need some money. And huge support from Customers. I fee yahoo is bad communicator. They don’t communicate well about their upcoming releases and advertise. I took so much time for me to figure out is there a blog where yahoo keeps updates. Still there are only few of them.
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Hi Ryan!
My name is Erin Fife and I am a recruiter at Adobe. I know, I know you’re getting (too) many calls/ emails from recruiters. I’m only hoping to network w/ you, I promise I’m not going to try to sell you a song and dance about Adobe vs. Yahoo….
Given your experience w/ Flex and Actionscript, as well as, your
standing in the community, I was wondering if you’d be open to
networking and/or posting an Adobe job opp on your blog?
Is that presumptuous? Totally cheesy? Never hurts to ask…
Adobe is hiring for a couple of Flex / Actionscript positions:
Flex App UI to work on Share.com
Flex UI Lead to work on Brio
Actionscipt Dev on Flash Player
I’d love to hear from anyone you’d recommend, or (now I really feel like I’m pimping myself out…nature of the beast) if you could post a message about Adobe hiring and my contact info, I’d greatly appreciate it.
I hope you enjoyed the sun this weekend!
Erin Fife
Recruiter, Adobe
408.536.5382 / efife@adobe.com