An awful yesterday

Yesterday was a horrible day for us. In an effort to continue with its major reorganization, Yahoo! performed a massive layoff and one of the targets was the product and engineering teams at Yahoo! Canada.

Yeah, you read it right, both teams were completely dissolved, around 50+ individuals. Only a few engineers (myself included) were selected to form a "transitioning" team to hand-off product development to the global platform teams. We'll be in this role until September 30th (when our contract will expire), the rest of my colleagues had to leave the office during yesterday. Like most of the layoffs that I've witnessed before, it was an ugly experience. Obviously, in this occasion it was also painful :(

The time has come to think about future directions and to make new decisions. We'll see how things move during the following 5 months...