Pros

- Most of the people are nice and helpful.
- Still a fun place to work for; free organic coffee and good benefits.

Cons

- Senior management's ability to lead and execute.
- Many middle-layer managers are not experienced or competent.
- Too many talking people; too few working people.

Advice to Senior Management

- Find the next "killer-app" product, and focus the resource on it.
- Identify and authorize the good talents in the company to act, and then try very hard to support them and keep them.

Pros

Great brand, great people, great low levels environment.

Cons

Senior management never ending planning, when something finally executes, it´s done with poor insight of many low level details. The problem is not in what is decided but in how is done.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention not in the what is decided but in the how it is done. A lot at low levels, ask around.

Pros

It has fair compensation, I can work on interesting project. Good employee training system. More opportunity to play a role in project.

Cons

Not very stable, too much reorg, company is not going the right direction, working too hard, not good stock price.

Advice to Senior Management

There are too many managers, and so too many layers and less efficient. As a result, many first line managers' are not technically strong enough.

Pros

Beautiful campus, great coffee, good internal IT support, some very smart people, good teams in many areas.

Cons

Director and VP Level managers protecting their own territories, lack of communication to rank-and-file employees, too many changes of direction and too little consistency. Too many changes all the time and not enough solid decision-making at the right level

Advice to Senior Management

Make more cuts, this time at the Director and VP level to remove the people who are really blocking your success. Determine your long-term strategy and stick with it long enough to really determine your success. Manage individual performance much better!

Pros

Excellent coworkers who are smart and hard-working. Opportunities to work on exciting new products such as search marketing. Good exposures to new technologies such as cloud computing.

Cons

Senior managers failed to provide sound long term strategies and good directions. Internal communications among different teams were extremely frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure what Yahoo is and will be. It is going to be very hard, if not impossible, to be both a technology company and a media company.

Pros

It really is a great place to work despite all the flack Yahoo! gets. I truly enjoyed my time at Yahoo!

Cons

It is still a young company that grew fast. There is a lot of disorganization and duplication of effort internally.

Advice to Senior Management

Once you sort things out organizationally I think its important to foster more ownership in the management. Management is always moving around too much and too fast.

Pros

Yahoo! as a company always takes care of its employees. There are a lot of small events always being organized on campus, and it is never a dull day at work. The people are extremely helpful and fun to work with.

Cons

The past of couple of years working for Yahoo! have been very eventful, with a lot of external distractions. These distractions should have caused the senior management to realize that the decision making needs to speed up, but unfortunately it hasn't. There are a lot of teams even after cutbacks/layoffs that are still extremely slow moving. Being an internet company I don't think this is very helpful.

Advice to Senior Management

The reorgs are a move in the right direction, but senior management needs to put aside some of their personal differences and work towards pushing Yahoo! towards the excellence that it is capable of. We have a lot of very very smart people, but the attitude of these smart people towards work most of the times reflects the attitude of the leaders.

Pros

No dress codes, use of IM at work place, fun place overall.

Cons

Lot of maintenance work and people afraid to take riska and make fast decisions. With lot of layoffs and reorgs every 2 months, this is not great feeling to be here.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of lot of mid level management. There are lot of incompetent managers out there.

Pros

* smart co-workers
* company looks after employees
* excellent employee benefits and overall compensation
* flexibility to move between groups
* learn about and opportunity to work on pretty much any exciting internet market space

Cons

* culture of fear has started to take a foothold
* politics and networking are most effective ways to rise or retain your position
* low levels of energy all around, no one is trying to reach for the stars
* endless re-orgs

Advice to Senior Management

* encourage risk taking
* accountability - especially at higher levels
* clarify strategy and company positioning
* continue to increase focus on key areas

Pros

cool brand; great people; a huge network impacting at least 100M people on a daily basis!

Cons

too much politics - especially as the new CEO is figuring out what to do with the company

Advice to Senior Management

change is good