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Yahoo's brain drain shows loss of faith in tech giant's chief executive

Faced with failure of her efforts to reignite growth at the firm, Mayer is resorting to job cuts, even as some investors seek her dismissal

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Published Mon, Jan 11, 2016 · 09:50 PM

    San Francisco

    MARISSA Mayer, the glamorous, geeky Google executive hired to turn around Yahoo in 2012, used to inspire hope in Yahoo's workforce just by visiting the cafeteria for ice-cream and mingling.

    Now, morale has sunk so low that some employees refer to Ms Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, as "Evita" - an allusion to Eva Peron, the former first lady of Argentina whose outsize ego and climb to power and wealth were chronicled in the musical of that name.

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