Its strange, the first post that I have to post at this new site is my good bye post from Yahoo! People tend to be excessively sentimental about their first job, why should I be an exception? More so because I have had an awesome time here over the past two years(Oh! I take that numerical liberty! I actual am falling short of 2 years by 10 days)
When I listen to the tales of numerous coding monkeys who jump from one coding assignment to another, from one company to another - I hear tales of Sucky Jobs, tales of Sucky Managers and sh**ty jobs - I wonder if I have been too lucky. An awesome Company! Brilliant People! Great folks to work for! It wouldnt be an exaggeration to say that it was a Dream Run! This is the stuff dreams are made of!
Straight out of College, this place gave me new love - PHP and Free and Open Software! To see people whom you had previously seen only wikipedia - easily amongst the best things I would say!
Work wise - I worked for Yahoo! HotJobs. To be frank when I joined Yahoo! and was told ‘HotJobs’ - I too really didnt know about that company/product/portal, and even I wore that surprised look that some of you would be wearing now. But then enter into Yahoo! and all my misgivings and initial apprehensions set aside, loved every bit of the time that I spent here, learnt things that an university could never teach.
Made great friends here, was mentored by some real cool people, and worked on some of the coolest stuff with some of the brightest minds - The merits of working for in Internet Company. How many of you can see your work live being used by other people - This is something, that I truly love about the internet.
How can I end my post about life at Yahoo! without mentioning about the fun here! The foosball games, bowling , Ping Pong, Cubicle Cricket(which we later moved into a Breakout Area) - some of the best times. The fervour that foosball games produced can not be summarized in words here!
Today is my last working day here, Monday would be the day the formalities would be complete, so technically wouldnt be working on Monday. Thanks to all the folks I ever interacted in the past two years - you guys made life here fun.Too many things that I would miss to be enumerated here.
Bye all! Keep in touch! Yahooooooo!!!!
Good Night and Good Luck!
You can mail me at sathyacrt84@yahoo.com
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