Yahoo Reviews

Pros

cool technology, massive scale, good people

Cons

uncertainty, lot of hiring at higher levels limits growth opportunities for current employees

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of employees

Pros

1) good perks and benefits
2) upper management that respects employees
3) friendly and usually helpful co-workers
4) used to be a place of highly competent engineers bu the quality has gone done in the last 2 years
5) a great place to maintain work-life balance

Cons

1) can be stuck in projects that are not technically challenging
2) little room for career advancement
3) change of focus from upper management that leaves employees with no clear direction
4) level of new hires are overall lower than those that worked there a couple of years ago
5) incompetent first and second line managers

Advice to Senior Management

Get with it and and put a plan in place that the employees can understand and stand behind.

Pros

Good perks
Frequent travel
Good expense account
Exposure to other top companies
Experience good to put on the CV
Training (although irrelevant to the role)
Really nice offices

Cons

Really confused leadership
No clear direction
Bad local leadership in middle east
No support for employees and managers
No vision as to where the company is heading
Favoritism
Lack of principles
Moody leadership
lack of innovation

Advice to Senior Management

Management should be replaced immediately as they are not up to the task. They were inherited from Maktoob, and they still run the company in a very dysfunctional fashion. The success the company is experiencing is only because people are coming online in droves, and naturally you get traffic and advertisers. In the long term, they are losing to Facebook and Google because these companies is out-innovating Yahoo by a 100 years.

Pros

It's a fun and yet challenging environment to work in

Cons

Internal transfer is difficult due to management disagreement

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more opportunity such as training for potential employee

Pros

great benefits, work-life balance, flexibility

Cons

inexperienced management, lack of communication and transparency

Pros

Exposure to new & upcoming technologies, smart engineers, great benefits, collaborative work environment, fun events and perfect work life balance

Cons

Lack of direction at senior level, demoralized workforce, constant bad news about layoffs reorgs or buying off company, bad press

Advice to Senior Management

Get a strategy and follow it through

Pros

Work is rewarding, world class, ground breaking. new technologies, career growth is good.

Cons

Industry is killing the Yahoo stock and thus leading to company loosing its vision. Every new management guy has a new vision :(

Advice to Senior Management

Stick with a plan - not make a new plan every year.

Pros

1. very friendly to engineering, and the working environment is really really well here.
2. Many smart guys. You'll learn a lot from them.

Cons

The management is kind of chaos.
Sometimes it is really tiring if we are pushed to publish a product fast -- it happens many times.

Advice to Senior Management

It is great to work at Yahoo and I'm pround to be part of it.
However, sometimes we just don't know what our focus is.

Pros

Occasional free lunches, free t-shirts and seemingly unlimited supply of free notebooks and pens. Perks like gym disbursement and subsidized transportation. Technology-wise, it's great, but they fail to make good use of it because all the good people are leaving.

Cons

They just throw a project at you and assume it'll magically work out. These people never provide you with the proper details and resources. You'll have to dig through everything yourself. There's no sense of priority of what needs to be done next. No direction whatsoever. Everything seems to be unimportant. I am feeling unwanted at this place.

Advice to Senior Management

All this talk about being a premier digital-"whatever" is full of baloney. Stop all the tough talks at those silly all-hands meetings and cut the useless speeches. Or do yourself a favor and just resign. You're messing up the company. You see, you know there's a problem if you have half a dozen managers on your team. It sounds so ridiculous.

Think about it, everything at Yahoo! runs on the underlying technology. So you should make this company technology-centric and engineering driven. I'm not trying to ask you to copy another company's culture, but you should look at Facebook's model, they have all the high quality engineering people, unlike YOU who depends on useless outsourced developers with degrees from no name colleges.

Lastly, you should get rid of people higher up who have ego problems. They only got to their spots because they started out early during the tech boom.

Pros

The work atmosphere is nice and there is a fair amount of flexibility. The work environment is open and you don't feel the hierarchical burden.

Cons

So many people at the top make it a top heavy company. Things happening in a hap-hazard manner with little planning.

Advice to Senior Management

Shed some weight at the top and get fit before its too late. Infuse some planning at the right levels to focus more on planning than superficial deadlines.