Yahoo Reviews in Burbank, CA

Pros

Good benefits and you can accrue a lot of vacation time. Company name looks good on a resume. You'll get a solid understanding of SEM best practices.

Cons

Too many mid level managers and lack of overall focus. Very tedious and subjective year-end performance reviews. Burn out factor is very high.

Advice to Senior Management

Take some initiative and lead. I haven't worked there in over 3 years, but some old friends indicate that things haven't gotten any better.

Pros

great benefits
great brand name
wear jeans

Cons

management
laying off people
to corporate
hire competent people
micro management

Advice to Senior Management

start listening to employees

Pros

Benefits and salary are better than what most companies are providing.

Cons

This is not a creative place to work. There are a lot of loafers in all areas who do very little for what they are paid. If you strive to live under the radar and do not care about what you are working on, then this may be the place for you. If you want to do something more satisfying and creative, then do not work here.

Advice to Senior Management

Realize that your role is to lead, inspire and improve the lives of those who report to you. You should not take your role lightly.

Pros

1) good/decent pay
2) lots of bright, intelligent people to work with
3) good opportunities for career growth if you have initiative
4) good opportunities to learn, if you have initiative

Cons

1) always a firefight, every day
2) lots of stupid people to work with (law of averages)
3) at the time i was there, the layoff situation/notices was entirely demoralizing
4) executive management (starting with filo & yang, then all their cronies, and finally carol) at yahoo is such a joke. they are disinterested in any of their employees, only mindful of their personal agendas. sadly, things got done by extremely motivated middle management and below--anyway--despite the idiocy from the top

Advice to Senior Management

it's a sinking ship. everyone knows

Pros

Fun and place to work

Cons

No advancement opportunities and job satisfaction.

Advice to Senior Management

Higher pay to employees.

Pros

Medical Benefits
Time off policy
Free coffee and soda!
Regular employee recognition events

Cons

Long commute for me
Sometimes difficult to move up in the same org.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the company focused on our core principles and values.

Pros

Lots of good people to work with, including some very sharp, talented developers. For example, internal technical mailing lists were very educational.

Cons

Lots of murky politics at higher levels of management, lack of transparency about upper management's decision making, and apparently arbitrary decisions handed down.

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out who you want Yahoo to be and what you want it to do, and make it clear to the employees what's going on. That doesn't mean holding bi-weekly content-free "all hands" meetings, though.

Pros

Good benefits and office space

Cons

Lack of vision and strategy from the Exec mgmt
Terrible internal tools and processes

Advice to Senior Management

Don't always focus on the current quarter, look out to the longer time horizon and make your decisions based on that.

Pros

- Flexible hours if need be. You can really manage your own schedule and people do respect it, or stay quiet about.
- Cross-functional teams are mostly beneficial to everyone involved.

Cons

- Constant rumors of layoffs
- Not bringing innovative products to market
- Feeling of stagnation
- Exec shuffles never end

Advice to Senior Management

- Stop the incessant re-orgs
- Hire senior management in the location were the team actually resides
- Start innovating

Pros

You can get away with not doing anything all day if you play your cards right.

Cons

The company is like a rudderless ship, lost in the ocean. It almost feels like senior management decides strategy on a trial and error basis. Re-orgs are constant. I myself had 4 different managers in one year. Some people had up to 7 different managers that same year. Politics and bureaucracy dominates everything.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a clue.