News –>This job listing was on the news page for Technology:
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Yahoo! News is looking for a Back-end Engineer who is passionate about online news and wants to take the No. 1 news destination on the Internet to even greater heights. This is a unique opportunity to join a talented team that is creating the next generation of news experience and put your stamp on it. You’ll have the chance to work with some of the leading content companies in the news field, who partner with us to provide the highest quality news, photos and video. You’ll help shape unique, original, multimedia news packages. And you’ll help set the standard for how user-contributed content and social media are integrated into a complete news experience.
Thoughts –> I find job listings quaint when I see them for big companies in the Technology sector, even online. In the same way that employment listings are often said to be posted in the paper during job market slumps only because they have someone in mind already, and they’re attempting to comply with self-imposed company policy by looking like they’re searching, seeing a listing for a job for Technology news seems totally nuts to me.
If I worked at Yahoo, I’d be keeping my ears to the blogging door, listening for an under-valued, but accurate and non-bias blogger whose head was in the space I desired. Someone like me would be a horrible fit, because on any given day, I have a strong Google bias – except on the days when I have a strong Yahoo bias.
Still, I think there’s someone suitable out there in the Blogosphere. Especially if they were going to be working with user-contributed content and social media, I’d also be looking at the writings of some of the people in companies I had recently bought. If they needed training, heck, that’s why Yahoo makes the big bucks.
Then again, maybe it’s rare to find software engineer who doesn’t write. Or maybe Yahoo does have people in mind, and they post job listings online for the same reason some companies post ads in papers. (Seriously, that’s not a myth. I worked in HR for a hot minute. Really opened my eyes.)
Of course, there’s much to be said for the theory that thinking the way I do is why I don’t own a company like Yahoo in the first place.
