Goodbye Yahoo

Published Nov 7, 2014 | In Random/Personal

Today was my last day at Yahoo and for the first time in my decade long career I am “officially unemployed” 😉

When you work at a place for more than half a decade then lot of things in your life start to revolve around it. The countless amount of Yahoo swags at my home is a testimonial to it. I just did a look around and found the following Yahoo branded items around me.

Yahoo T-shirts (which I have enough for this lifetime 😉 )
iPad
Couple of power banks
Couple of pen drives
Couple of bean bags
All kind of bags starting from backpacks to laptop bags, travel bags, carry bags etc
Couple of toys for my son
Pens and lot of other small things

I came out of the office today with lot of good memories (that I can cherish for my entire life) and I am pretty sure Yahoo would continue to be part of my life even though I don’t work there any more.

What’s next?

I have not made up mind yet and at this point I am planning to take up a break for a couple of weeks so that I can reboot myself before deciding anything. Meanwhile I might concentrate more on my pet projects and might spend a little extra time with Bulk WP.

Anyways I will keep you guys updated of what I am up to and meanwhile I am going to enjoy my little break 😉

Lentin Joseph says:

Nov 7, 2014 at 9:06 PM

Best of Luck Sudar, Hope you remember me. I am Lentin Joseph, was speaker at PyCon2013.

Sudar says:

Nov 7, 2014 at 9:50 PM

Thanks for the wishes Lentin. I remember you very well, you gave talk about robotics and it was just after my talk.

So what are you up to these days?

- Lentin Joseph says:
  
  Nov 7, 2014 at 9:57 PM
  
  Hi Sudar. After pycon 2013, i was trying to build a startup. Started company before 8 month before. Now doing some works and some product research ..
  
  - Sudar says:
    
    Nov 7, 2014 at 10:04 PM
    
    Cool. All the best for your startup.

Viral Sachde says:

Nov 7, 2014 at 9:08 PM

Good Luck ! ! !

Sudar says:

Nov 7, 2014 at 9:51 PM

Thanks Viral.

Rajeshwaran says:

Nov 7, 2014 at 9:19 PM

Good luck Sudar.

Sudar says:

Nov 7, 2014 at 9:51 PM

Thanks Rasukutty. Long time.. So what are you up to these days?

Balaji says:

Nov 7, 2014 at 9:20 PM

Good luck Sudar!

I listened to you on my first day in Yahoo! During induction. Couple of things that you have written about have changed lot of things I have done at work. Your post on python pig udfs made me try it out and I have probably never written a java udf after that!! And recently I tried out dplyr and yes, its awesome. I hope to try pandas sometime. Thanks!

-Balaji.

ps: my last day will be middle of next month.

Sudar says:

Nov 7, 2014 at 9:52 PM

Hi Balaji,

Thanks for your wishes and I am really glad that my blog posts helped you at work. Enjoy your last month at Yahoo 🙂