Yahoo – “Nice coworkers, but until management gets its act together talent will continue leaving...”

Pros

- You'll make friends with lots of your coworkers, many of whom are very talented
- Ability to take on more responsibility and get exposure
- Up to date systems
- Casual work environment, no suits here

Cons

- Finance is downsizing, so there's few openings or opportunities for growth
- Existing employees are being asked to take on more and more work with increasingly narrow job descriptions
- Salaries and levels have been frozen for 1 year - creating an effective backlog of employees waiting for career advancement who have been given little encouragement that any will come
- Bartz's new management team doesn't seem to have a clue about how to run the business, throwing money at problems without setting in place accountability and goals beforehand - witness the laughable multimillion dollar "brand relaunch" campaign

Advice to Senior Management

If Yahoo! really cared about employee retention, it seems minimally management would constantly communicate about all the things it's doing to fix the problems employees have been raising via employee surveys for the past 3 years. Better yet, fix the problems.