First 4 Weeks at Yahoo!
So I'm wrapping up my fourth week at Yahoo! (While I do like it here, that's not enthusiasm -- the company name has an exclamation point in it, which induces some snark in me.)

Work is going pretty well. I'm helping make tools for the Operations department -- my group mostly makes Perl scripts and PHP sites, plus a few C++ utilities controlled by the scripts. Yahoo! does have an impressive set of tools compared to my time at EarthLink -- which is unsurprising considering its size, but still interesting to note. A nice has been taking the train into work, since I live right by the Caltrain station and Yahoo! has a shuttle from the station right to the offices. On the down side have been a lot of 5:00, 5:30, and 6PM meetings (especially when my mornings are meeting-free).

This week we confirmed laying off around 5% of the employees worldwide, and we just got the news of an official offer from Microsoft:

Microsoft offers $44.6B for Yahoo

So, just after I was just wishing wiredferret good luck at getting a Microsoft job, I find that I might end up working for Microsoft in the not-too-distant future.