It is extremely difficult to get data, and I am not talking about sensitive data. Need to go through several teams and get their permissions.
A lot of the documentations are either not detailed enough or simply outdated. It’s difficult to figure out how to use a lot of the tools or even what they are for. Sometimes the team owning the code can’t even help you because the person that wrote it is gone.
A good percentage of engineers do not have math or engineering background. Example: English, History, Music majors. Really make me wonder how they got their jobs.
Now for some personal ventilation, like what the headline stated, I was laid off after just 10 weeks. I was working 10+ hours almost every day and was doing a very good job, yet I got axed with no explaination. I was just out of grad school, and had a couple other offers to choose from. I was told during interview that Yahoo was doing well and still expanding (granted that was last year). Not that I believed all of this given all the negative press, but I still figured that that a newly opened position should be safe for a least a couple of years. Plus I heard that companies rarely layoff young people. That’s why I went with Yahoo anyway, since it gave the highest offer. Boy was I wrong. Now, I’ll have to start my job search all over again, but in a much worse environment, without the help of career center, and a much tighter time constraint. So I pretty much have to take the first offer that I get, whenever that will be. Hard not to get a little angry when I think about it.
