The Yahoo! Odyssey Awards
Yahooooo…. Yeah I and my team have just been presented with the prestigious “Yahoo! Odyssey Award” this week, for our extraordinary effort in getting Y!Xtra launch on date and dot on time. The Y! Odyssey Awards have been introduced in 2006 for the “International Engineering” and is an effort to recognize significant contribution made by either a team/individual. I guess it is a way by which the Senior management wants to say “Thank You!” to the marvellous effort put in.
One of the most enjoyable challenges I have faced so far at Yahoo!7 was the Y!Xtra development and launch. We had very short time to build a bunch of properties and our team was working 7 days a week to get this up and I myself think that we did an excellent job as a team and also indiidually 
We were putting in a seamless effort to reach the deadlines but at the same time never giving up on the quality. Very well led by the able hands of Sebastian Urban, apart from the homepage, we launched Y!Xtra News , Y!Xtra Entertainment, Astrology at 12:00 am on March 1st. Yes the early hours of March 1st! It was an amazing experience to work never-tired on a project and then to see it as a full-fledged product, up and running! 
And you will feel that its all worth it, when you put in such an effort and then get rewarded accordingly, may be a day-off, may be a gift-voucher, may be both of them and when you think its the end of rewards, may be you get pleasantly surprised on a fine morning by seeing Y! Odyssey Award waiting for you on your desk along with a congratulations letter.
One of the many good reasons as to why we want to stay with Yahoo! 