Yahoo Reviews

Pros

I like all the Smart people.

Cons

Senior Management is having tough time understanding all product potential.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop bringing in all the Microsoft people. No innovation.

Pros

It has been a great experience working in Yahoo

Cons

No future direction is causing some concerns amongst employees

Pros

Great work culture and engineering culture, excellent staff, much of management works to ensure individual contributors have a career trajectory built into assignments and duties. Retention is important for Yahoo! and so there's significant focus on maintaining work/life balance, and training and keeping excellent engineers on-staff. Tooling and technologies are great. Lots of projects and ability to transition around to keep things interesting. If you want to have a well paying job, top notch benefits and build large scale web chops, this is an excellent place to do it.

Cons

Yahoo has major challenges in its search for identity and success in 2011. Uncertainty @ the exec level considering we have a new "interim" CEO, however, this is likely to be positive for the company on the whole. There is an enormous amount of success here but feels overshadowed in the press. Most folks detach from the public image of Yahoo! and focus on doing great work. :)

Pros

There are lots of smart people here, and they are a joy to work with. The company is very good about appreciating employees in general, with plenty of fun events throughout the year. The work is pretty interesting, and most teams work well with one another. The salary is pretty good, and there are bonuses.

Cons

The board seems to have handled the firing of Bartz rather poorly. It was very abrupt and without any good reason. The executive staff is all fairly new to Yahoo, with many of them coming from Microsoft. It gives the impression that Microsoft is slowly taking over, which is not a good thing from my standpoint.

Advice to Senior Management

The board should be replaced with people that work in the industry, and instead of trying to find a CEO that can optimize today's problem (revenue generation), try finding someone who is a good leader.

Pros

pay
nothing to do
lax attitude
coffee and soda bars in all bldgs.

Cons

bored, highly paid people who dont do much

Pros

Good work, great environment, work from home, flexible,

Cons

current distuptions, leadership flaws, bad handling of media

Pros

Still a top-web property with lots of cash and eyeballs.

Cons

People were too comfortable and/or risk-averse.

Advice to Senior Management

Be bold and decisive, and create a more unified objective for the company. What is Yahoo today?

Pros

Top people are really top notch. The technologies you learn there will translate well to many other companies.

Cons

Software dev methodology is often behind the industry, legacy code is really bad. Constant high profile company turmoil.

Pros

Ability to learn about the vast technologies Yahoo is into, even though if its being used in some other part of the globe. Interact with some good tech minds , exposure to current market trends.

Cons

too many changes in short span, projects,management team , dont give really clear idea of the future,as seen in open market also.

Advice to Senior Management

take long term concrete steps & stick to it even after management changes

Pros

good benefits, good work-life balance

Cons

not a "cool" place to work, for sure. management is horrible.