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Working for Yahoo!

I guess it’s about time I blogged this: Monday was my first official day working for Yahoo! I’ve joined the new Technology Development group, first mentioned by Jeremy Zawodny a couple of months ago. My first assignment is with the Flickr team, where I will be working on some Cool New Stuff. How exciting is that?

I’m in California this week, but I’ll be working from the London offices for the next year.

Posted 21st September 2005 at 1:39 am

This is Working for Yahoo! by Simon Willison, posted on 21st September 2005.

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47 comments

  1. Congrats!

    Jim - 21st September 2005 01:47 - #

  2. Congratulations, Simon! You always get the coolest jobs, you... Nice going! :-)

    Jan! - 21st September 2005 01:49 - #

  3. Way to go Simon, this is a great move on Yahoo's part.

    Craig - 21st September 2005 02:23 - #

  4. It's always satisfying to see hugely talented people get great jobs.

    Adrian Holovaty - 21st September 2005 02:30 - #

  5. Agree! :)

    Guy C - 21st September 2005 02:46 - #

  6. Great news for you and Yahoo!

    Joseph Scott - 21st September 2005 02:50 - #

  7. I know I've told you already, but congrats, Simon! Yahoo made a great hire :)

    Levi - 21st September 2005 03:17 - #

  8. <napoleon dynamite>lucky</napoleon dynamite>

    Scott Raymond - 21st September 2005 03:30 - #

  9. Congratulations, Simon! Wow, Yahoo!'s hiring a lot of people lately. Hmmm.... wonder what they're up to over there?

    Eric Meyer - 21st September 2005 03:33 - #

  10. wow that's cool, congrats ! I love Flickr ! These days my favorite way to kill time and relax on computer is viewing the photos and make comments. Are you going to be doing Flash stuff or DHTML/Ajax stuff ?

    Robert - 21st September 2005 04:13 - #

  11. It's always satisfying to see hugely talented people get great jobs.

    ...and even more so when said people use their impressive powers to educate others.

    Congratulations Simon, well deserved! :)

    Andrew K - 21st September 2005 05:08 - #

  12. Welcome to Yahoo! -- looking forward to working with you on some of that Cool New Stuff! (yeah, you have to put exclamations at the end of every sentence now!)

    Chad Dickerson - 21st September 2005 05:18 - #

  13. Oh my goodness, that's so cool, congratulations. Looking forward to some cool app "made by mr. Willison". Good Luck!

    juque - 21st September 2005 05:57 - #

  14. Welcome aboard, yo!

    Premshree Pillai - 21st September 2005 05:59 - #

  15. Excellent! They made a(nother) great hire!

    Yvonne Adams - 21st September 2005 07:07 - #

  16. good luck at the tri-wizard tournament simon! ;)

    leonard - 21st September 2005 07:15 - #

  17. Well done Simon - just make sure you make it to the next meetup so you can buy us all drinks. That's what happens when you start a new job, right?

    Sam Newman - 21st September 2005 08:31 - #

  18. Nice one Simon! Sounds like you've landed a good 'un. Hopefully see you in the Smoke sometime, once you're done with California.

    Richard Rutter - 21st September 2005 09:07 - #

  19. Neato! Hope it all goes well :)

    radiac - 21st September 2005 14:26 - #

  20. Congratulations! I hope you can make it on the 10th, to tell us all about it.

    Simon Brunning - 21st September 2005 16:10 - #

  21. Congratulations. Indeed, Yahoo! hires many talented people and we already begin to hear about the fruit of their latest recruitements.

    Mathieu 'p01' HENRI - 21st September 2005 16:49 - #

  22. Congratulations. Yahoo! has made a great choice.

    Tanny O'Haley - 21st September 2005 19:37 - #

  23. Nice one - any more jobs going? :) Is that the team Rasmus Ledorf is in?

    Paul - 21st September 2005 21:45 - #

  24. Hey Simon, Welcome aboard! I'll find you on backyard and maybe we can chat now that we're co-workers ;) I'm in the corporate office (SmallBiz Web Dev - http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com) in Sunnyvale so if you're ever in town we should have lunch.

    Dustin Diaz - 22nd September 2005 00:04 - #

  25. Congratulations, I am glad for you ;)

    jure - 22nd September 2005 01:57 - #

  26. Excellent news, and good luck!

    Tom - 22nd September 2005 02:14 - #

  27. Awesome. Welcome to Yahoo! :-)

    Swaroop C H - 22nd September 2005 09:21 - #

  28. Congratulations! Another tech-head whose site I've admired for the last few years, now working under the same roof as myself. Welcome to the valley! .. or at least, for this week. ;)

    Scott Schiller - 22nd September 2005 15:42 - #

  29. Congratulations, look forward to seeing this Cool New Stuff :-)

    Simon Mackie - 23rd September 2005 05:40 - #

  30. Simon,

    congratulations! I've been reading your site for a long time and always found it a great resource. Yahoo! have nabbed themselves an excellent employee.

    Certainly come a long long way since TFC Central... ;)

    Nick Wilson - 23rd September 2005 10:10 - #

  31. nice blog come check out mine

    drunken fuck - 23rd September 2005 14:40 - #

  32. Oy, it appears people are getting over the XHTML-only spam speedbump.

    Jeremy Dunck - 23rd September 2005 15:20 - #

  33. Congratulations Simon, I was wondering where you'd ended up :-)

    Peter Bowyer - 23rd September 2005 16:06 - #

  34. Congrats

    basstech - 25th September 2005 10:04 - #

  35. Simon, I've read your blog off and on for a while now, usually because it comes up high in the search results when I'm looking for info on Mozilla products. Just wanted to add my congratulations to these others -- way to go! :)

    gardenwife - 26th September 2005 04:07 - #

  36. Congratulations Simon!

    vanderwal - 26th September 2005 18:54 - #

  37. That's truly awesome, Simon. There are few cooler webapp teams to be working on on the planet.

    I went to a PHP conference in Vancouver once, and the Flickr guy did a presentation about how Flickr uses PHP. We were all duly impressed.

    I loved the idea of Flickr, but didn't really use it for a project until just recently. I love being able to use Uploadr and drag/drop an entire directory of photos and have it resize, upload, and give me a long webform to quickly rename and add descriptions and tags.

    I almost put cash on the barrelhead, but for one problem. No way to easily reverse the order of sets. You upload and the default order is reverse chronological. If you want it to tell the story of a set in chronological, you have to use a 3rd party tool. DAMN I wish it had this feature and so do a lot of other people, from the look of the support boards.

    Daniel Talsky - 26th September 2005 19:21 - #

  38. Me too. Me too. See you in Sunnyvale soon. I'm joining the Yahoo team in a couple weeks as well.

    Ted Drake - 29th September 2005 00:13 - #

  39. Congratulations, Simon. Well done. I'm wondering what kind of work you'll do there. Good lucke.

    Spir - 30th September 2005 13:11 - #

  40. Well! Done! On! The! New! Job! With! Yahoo!(!) I really must stop reading the register.

    Huseyin - 4th October 2005 15:54 - #

  41. I'm in California this week, but I'll be working from the London offices for the next year.

    . . . while your paperwork is sorted out, no doubt! I know how that goes. ;-p

    Well done, and good fortune to you at Yahoo! :-)

    Laurence - 21st October 2005 05:57 - #

  42. Congrats and all the very best. I haven't used Flickr much, but I shall forward to that cool new stuff :) So you are prepared to move or are you used to moving about?

    Ajay D'Souza - 11th November 2005 17:27 - #

  43. ha! "Cool New Stuff"? Obviously a Non-Disclosure Agreement in place. :-)

    Aaron Brazell - 11th November 2005 18:04 - #

  44. Congrats! to you Simon :)

    Jauhari - 12th November 2005 06:12 - #

  45. Congratulations!

    Erde - 27th April 2006 14:07 - #

  46. Well one of my dreams is to work for Yahoo. Your are a very luckey guy.

    Don Omar - 20th June 2006 04:23 - #

  47. Hi Simon, If you are still working for yahoo please help me. I am unable to log into my yahoo account. I have not forgotten my password, but for some reason i cannot sign in. I dont even remember my answer to the challenge question. this is my most frequently used id. I am worried that someone could have hacked my account and could be using it for whatever reasons..... Simon please help me...................................

    ELIZABETH SEBASTIAN - 12th August 2006 12:30 - #

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