TechCrunch is compiling a table of former Yahoo executives -- ones who left in 2007-08 -- and it's growing. It says:
We aren't able to track the thousands of non-execs who've quit or were laid off, there are just too many of them. Many of these ex-Yahoo'ers have congregated on this Yahoo Alumni Page on Facebook, with over 1,500 members.
Facebook should certainly make the task simpler than it would have been before. However, it's hard to know how significant it is without similar figures for Microsoft and/or Google, related to company size. People leave all sorts of companies all the time, for a wide variety of reasons. A company of 50,000 people could see 5,000 people leave every year.
What might be more alarming would be any difficulties in recruiting really good people, but that's almost impossible to track.
Update: The table was out of date within hours, with TechCrunch reporting Yahoo's Executive Structure Crumbles: Lu, Garlinghouse and Makhijani To Leave
