While I don't think that I personally failed these sites, there were a lot of very deep problems which I feel I should have raised much earlier in the process.
I came very close to quitting over how those sites were managed. My manager (who was a great asset to the company by any estimation) left to go work at Google. Another talented engineer I knew came close to leaving the company.
In the end, Yahoo gave me a huge raise to keep me here, so that's why I consider it my "best" failure story, since it had a happy ending for me :)
While I don't think that I personally failed these sites, there were a lot of very deep problems which I feel I should have raised much earlier in the process.
I came very close to quitting over how those sites were managed. My manager (who was a great asset to the company by any estimation) left to go work at Google. Another talented engineer I knew came close to leaving the company.
In the end, Yahoo gave me a huge raise to keep me here, so that's why I consider it my "best" failure story, since it had a happy ending for me :)