Yahoo – “great place - for engineers with a soul”

Pros

y! is different. its a content company. it started as one, and always, in its heart, it will be about serving interesting and useful content.

as a developer, its an interesting place to be. you are on the front-lines, you see the business and processes, and you deal with the best and proven web technologies out there.

you learn a lot, the pay is competitive, and the work-life balance is great.

the best thing about yahoo is that you work at a company that caters to the masses: i went into the company being a hardcore code monkey, and came out with an appreciation for the common internet surfer. really opened my eyes to the opportunities of enabling others to use the web.

Cons

being compared to google.

i just want to say. if you want to be a real code monkey, working in inane problems that no one else sees. work for google.

Advice to Senior Management

be more transparent about management and strategy decisions. we trust you, but we want to know where this is headed.