Yahoo’s Performance Review System: A HR Disaster?

Yahoo was founded by two PhD students of Stanford University, Jerry Yang (Yang) and David Filo (Filo), in 1994 in Sunnyvale, California, USA. It was initially started as ‘Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web (JDG)’, a website which acted as a directory of several other websites. Yang and Filo started the website to cater to the needs of people who wanted to go to a single place and find websites related to diverse areas. Over time, JDG became very popular and became the first choice of people browsing the web. It helped them discover useful, interesting, and entertaining content. JDG was renamed Yahoo in 1994 and was positioned as a customized database intended to serve different users. Yang and Filo developed customized software to help users locate, identify, and edit information available on the internet...