The Yahoo Body Count: Who's Gone So Far
We know that Yahoo is axing about 1,000 employees this month, but have yet to see a list of the pink-listed. Here's what we've been able to compile so far (note that in some cases, there's a question about who left on their own and who got the boot). It's obviously far from complete, so please help us out: Add missing names in comments below, or drop us a line at tips@alleyinsider.com.
2/25 Update: Thanks for your tips and notes, we've updated our list accordingly.
Gone:
Bradley Horowitz, Head of Advanced Technology who left for Google
Brad Ramsey, Marketing Executive
Karin Timpone, Head of Consumer/Customer Innovation
Susan Mernit, Yahoo! Personals Senior Director
Todd Daum, VP of Marketing
Denise Iorio, Title Unknown
Salim Ismail, Head of Yahoo! Brickhouse incubator in SF
Ryan Kuder, Senior Manager of Integrated Campaign Strategy
Joy Mountford, VP of User Experience and Design Group
George John, Senior Director
Subhhash Bhatia, Senior Director
Patrick Houston, VP of Content and Programming
Randy Farmer, Director, Community Strategy Analyst
Chip Morningstar, Principal for Yahoo! Communities and Identity
Jeff Scott, Melissa Rische, Ya-Yung Cheng, Chanel Wheeler, Randy Ksar, from Facebook Group "I Worked At Yahoo-Until Today (via Search Engine Land)
Jessica Bowman, "SEO Evangelist"
Jeff Bonforte, VP of Social Search
Charlie Thomas, described as Yahoo's "best sales strategist"
Lance Nishihira, "UI Rockstar"
Mike Deluca of Yahoo! HotJobs, who recently joined Yodle
Leaving voluntarily (via ClickZ):
Michael Levine, Search Marketing Executive
Eric Sternbach, Sales VP
Richard Firminger, UK Search and Sales
Also: ClickZ reports that 490 of the thousand laid-off employees were from Yahoo's California offices. At the time of this report, the NY Department of Labor has not received a layoff notice from Yahoo for any of its New York employees.
Betty Park, a sales director last seen promoting Y!'s Panama project.
Mitch Aidelbaum, Global Windows Production Engineer
They've dropped 45 employees in their Banglore operation as 'part of their routine “trimming process”.'
Leonard Lin, one of the co-founders of Upcoming.org, a social calendering service acquired by Yahoo.
Jonathan Strauss, Product Manager, widgets.yahoo.com.
Maria Hinge, VP of Emerging European Markets
Yahoo!'s Dublin Finance Team
See also:
Yahoo to Yahoos: Please Don't Leave (Until You're Fired)
ex-AOLers to ex-Yahoos: Don't Worry, Life After Firing!
Getting Fired at Yahoo: A Twitter Log
Charlie O'Donnell to Fired Yahoos: Come Work Here
~Ron
Hah. Corporate awards are such bs. I think they're demeaning, just because they don't really mean anything when push comes to shove. It's just to keep the sheep (us employees) in line, real recognition comes from promotion and raises, not pieces of paper or a gift card at Best Buy.
Charlie you are the best!!!!
And Lance Nishihira, UI rockstar? Give me a fucking break. Did he write that himself? Don't you actually have to create something to be a UI rockstar?
Sit on your ass designers and toss-off fests like the YHaus. Good bye and good effing luck. You need it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maidelba/2251633512/
Two of the biggest losers going.
The sad part? The middle management, which stifled Yahoo sucked out all the oxygen like the algae on a pond, will be rewarded handsomely by Microshaft to stay with retention bonuses and other perks!!
100% spot on. Unfortunately.
How many failures does the seemingly no talent Brad Garlinghouse get to be responsible for before being canned?
Hmm.... Let's see, can you copy other companies forever Brad? I mean, what have you done buddy? Wrote a retarded memo that got people's panties in a bunch? Copied MySpace with Mash.. trying desperately to copy Facebook?
I am waiting for the 2 guys from Office Space to interview you.
When Yahoo starts getting rid of people like this it will be a new day. How many other top "execs" need to get the boot based on failures? They get the big pay, shouldn't they earn it??