Yahoo Reviews

Pros

Great benefits package-- health, vacation, holidays, office space, etc.

Cons

Some employees who have been with Yahoo! for years and years are set in old ways and processes. They are the ones that are holding Yahoo! back from advancing in sales, social media, email, and overall consumer engagement.

Pros

Employee care is excellent! Personal growth too!

Cons

Leadership is not so strong. Poor in execution.

Pros

Great environment, young, energetic, people's attitudes, in New York and other big cities. It has a recognized brand name and a great asset in being the most home page site on the web.

Cons

The company is disorganized, no strategy or consistency, given that there is too much turnover in management and all the way down. In addition, systems need a complete makeover.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to re-organize the company based on a strategy. Yahoo needs to decide where it is competing, who are it's key customers and what are the strengths that it will use to conquer the majority of share in that market. We need specific strategies with accountable business owners.

Pros

Great base compensation
people are fun to work with
great work/life balance

Cons

Rewards for high performance were horrible last year
no room to grow, company is shrinking and directors and vps have been there forever
no clear direction on products from executive team
constant reorgs
a lot of career instability with a lot of movements
quality of people is decreasing
a lot of mid-level mangers are very close minded and are from a different era
hr department is useless for dealing with conflict
your job is always on the line after a reorg, wether you're a good performer or not
constant saving on ridiculous things is tiring. meanwhile we always have money for our top execs
very political

Advice to Senior Management

don't know even where to start. give more guidance. listen to the ics, there a lot of rotten directors and vps

Pros

Great environemnt and fun at work.
Lot of avenues for innovation
Great work life balance

Cons

Yahoo is going through rough weather and hence may no be a best option to join

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate clearly of any management decisions taken beforehand. Many a times employess get the communication from outside before the management

Pros

- Very smart and pleasant colleagues.
- Interesting work -- Y! still has a number of the leading web properties in the US and WW.
- Generally collaborative and friendly culture.
- Great pay and benefits.

Cons

- Within Silicon Valley, the brand has suffered a lot and it is not as 'cool' to work at Y! is it is at FB or G. (Outside of Silicon Valley people recognize it as experience at a top company + like the brand a lot and tend to think it is very cool that you have worked there.)
- Multiple re-orgs can be tiring, but hopefully that's behind Y! with the new CEO as of early 2012.

Advice to Senior Management

- Make sure employees know that they have been heard & understood before restructuring what they are working on. Also make sure they understand the logic behind the new direction.
- Make fundamental choices about the businesses Y! should be in, and then stick to them.

Pros

Fun place to work with other poor saps.

Cons

No communication or warning from management.

Advice to Senior Management

Temp work sucks. Stop using temp workers.

Pros

- They reward high performance very well
- Co-workers are very talented and knowledgeably, so I was always learning from them. Because getting a job at Yahoo is tough (Used to be that 1 job given per 100 resumes), the quality of people here is of high caliber.
- Possibility to work with multiple teams, so you can work on more than one project at the same time and keep life interesting
- Career growth and goals are taken seriously, I moved on from Software engineering to Research position gradually
- Competitive perks and salary
- Fun informal environment

Cons

- Media coverage of the company since 2008, The inside reality of the company is completely different from how its portraid in the media.

Pros

Some of the best things about Yahoo! was the relaxed and comfortable environment. Also there was always free treats, such as candy and pop and free lunch. It was a place where you actually woke up every morning wanting to go to work.

Cons

Some of the downsides were parking issues and sometimes having to "makeup" work for yourself. Other than that there is nothing else bad to say about the company.

Advice to Senior Management

I believe that management was excellent and my only advice would be for them to continue with the already excellent job that they are doing.

Pros

Good people to work for and with.

Cons

Uncertain environment. We need to be a media company.

Advice to Senior Management

Be a media company!