Pros

Can leave work very early. Most employees are in their thirties so there isn't a college mentality. Best thing - unlike Google there isn't an engineering led culture.

Cons

No business focus. Groups randomly develop products and services without any common direction. Excellence is frowned upon - best to just play the political game

Advice to Senior Management

Lay off all the former consultants/bankers and bring in people who have not been contaminated by working too many years in the corp environment.

Pros

+ good people -- but again it depends on the team

Cons

- considerable pressure sometimes when L are to be announced
- Mgmt can do a better job -- seems a lot of inconsistencies

Advice to Senior Management

Avoid considerable wastage of money at times when cost saving initiatives are taken elsewhere

Pros

The environment can be upbeat, sometimes, and the facilities are nice(ish). Open access to management when needed. Flexible scheduling and travel.

Cons

Big company is easy to get lost in the folds. Difficult to get recognition if you aren't the most outstanding person around. Customer focus is lacking.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to employees, and provide recognition for a job well done. Don't lose sight of customer needs and desires.

Pros

great place to work, especially if you have kids, they recognize that you have a life outside of yahoo

Cons

things have been so muddled for so long that it will take 2-3 years to cut away the fat to get to where yahoo needs to be in terms of systems, operations, product development, and processes

Advice to Senior Management

get a focus and exexute

Pros

Brand name, Internet, free coffee

Cons

Low salary,stress,no recongnition,crazy people and management.bad hiring.

Advice to Senior Management

Do a better and stop treating employees like slaves and if you like doing something you go ahead and do it ...do expect other ppl to do it. and stop lying .

Pros

Great Engineers, Open source culture, Great products....taken in parts it still has great assets...It has many good people still left at the company!

Cons

Unfortunately, it is a company that has lost its way. While the media products like Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Games are still number 1, the company tried to focus on too many other priorities...

Advice to Senior Management

may be too late to do much here

Pros

Well know brand, strong impact on mainstream media. Extremely smart engineering team, and very ethnically diverse. Higher than average compensation.

Cons

Yahoo! is often spoken of in the shadow of Google - even though Yahoo! is a prime Internet portal. Also, management is not always transparent, for e.g., with the recent Microsoft-yahoo deal.

Advice to Senior Management

Talk to your soldiers: i.e., the engineers before making big-time mergers/deals. It is insufficient to simply loop in upper management.

Pros

- Very competitive compensation package including benefits
- Very smart people
- Flexible work environment

Cons

- Highly incompetent management (esp the middle management).
- Passive aggressive environment
- Too many dependencies

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the middle management layer

Pros

Nice facilities, benefits, and salary is competitive. There are some interesting problems to solve, and Yahoo! gets to solve them at a scale you don't see at many companies.

Cons

No autonomy, no foresight, no innovation. Why create something innovative? Let's just do what the competition does. Why create something innovative? It sounds risky.

Advice to Senior Management

Management, listen to your smart engineers. Brilliant ideas come from them, not you, and certainly not the rumor mill or the joneses. Look up the term 'knowledge inversion'. And senior management--learn to deal with the fact that software projects fail, and fail often. Don't act so surprised when reality comes and breaks your unrealistic expectations.

Pros

1.cutting-edge work/ professional growth
2.work life balance

Cons

1. unstable org/ too much restructuring/ layoffs
2. lacks strategy for financial growth/ dealing with competition

Advice to Senior Management

Come out with a strategy to achieve financial growth