The secret hiring of Marissa Mayer: How Yahoo kept it all under wraps.

[stevencorona]

I was surprised she didn't have some kind of non-compete with Google, but they are illegal/unenforceable in CA, right? (I'm on the East Coast so pardon my lack of knowledge).

[samstave]

What if Sergei and Larry WANT her to go to Yahoo. Not to "compete" but to build it out in some other way, to build it as a service that google can then acquire.

She can go there to experiment on ideas that maybe even google had internally but couldn't risk to do with google viewers...

[saraid216]

Wikipedia agrees with your memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California

[rg]

Non-competes are totally unenforceable in CA as a condition of employment. If you sell your startup to an acquirer, the contract can include a non-compete subject to fairly strict conditions of reasonableness.

[warech]

This tagline is misleading. A single paragraph discusses "How Yahoo kept it all under wraps" while the rest of the article is an also-ran discussion about Mayer's potential success/failure at Yahoo.

[gringomorcego]

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-go...

Until those companies apologize to every existing employee, I have absolutely no loyalty to them.

If they can't even let the free market decide the value of the programmer why should I have any fucking allegiance to any of them?

I can only hope she and others get the competitive salary they deserve.

[dasil003]

I don't think Marissa Mayer is worried that she might not be, or have been, fairly compensated.

[samstave]

Are you one of the 5 engineers?

[adventureful]

In an actual free market, collusion between companies is legal and occurs regularly.

You're talking about a regulated market in which labor is protected by government intervention from collusion between companies.