On: Yahoo’s Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company

[jroseattle]

Not even close for me.

I would no sooner discount someone who worked for Yahoo anymore than I would give high-mark credence to those who work at Google or Facebook.

Trust buy verify.

[danieltillett → jroseattle]

Trust buy verify

Is this a typo or are you deliberately trying to be profound as this is quite clever.

[jroseattle → danieltillett]

It's deliberate -- although I don't know about being "profound". :-)

In other words, while I take prior places of employment as signal (just as others do), I tend to discount it heavily. I know smart people working at not-great places, as well as people I would never hire working at some very well-respected companies.

In the end, I'm hiring the person now, not their history.

[jroseattle → jroseattle]

Actually just re-read this: YES, typo. My bad.

"Trust but verify."

[danieltillett → jroseattle]

I like the typo more - there are so many ways to parse it :)

[sangnoir → danieltillett]

It's a Russian proverb[1] made famous by Ronald Reagan during the cold war.

Offtopic: before today, I was unaware of the (alleged) Russian roots of the statement and assumed Reagan coined it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify