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

Pros

-Amazing Assets
-Great work culture
-Good work life balance

Cons

-Management sucks
-No coherent strategy moving forward

Advice to Senior Management

-Value employee contributions
-Provide some accountability. Lot of folks who are not fit to be here remain because of nepotism

Pros

Lot of Energetic people around and there are very smart people and top management is some what too thrifty about some real needs of company. One thing I hate is hardware selection of the company where only cost matters rather than total cost of ownership.

Cons

Lot of Silos and not focused on one thing. There are projects which needs more structure and some of special interests needs to be managed properly. I think Yahoo needs more guidance for engineers and less management interference.

Advice to Senior Management

Yahoo need to make sure some middle management people are very political in nature and need to get rid of those politics for engineer to strive

Pros

Company culture, benefits, pay, fellow employees, free coffee bars!, great gym

Cons

Disorganization, little accountability, little consequence for failure, stock price

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to your products and involve - really involve - your employees.

Pros

It's a well-known company. It's a huge company with great career development. You are ok to move between teams.

Cons

It's a big company without much process. It's a company based in the United States; hence, it's very US-centric.

Advice to Senior Management

Engage w/ the grass-root working bees to understand how life is as individual contributor. Don't assume you know everything.

Pros

Smart people and really interesting cutting edge products

Cons

Management is utterly incompetent. It's not about your skill or abilities, but who you know and who you're friends with. Horribly cliquey environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Leave Yahoo now. You are singlehandedly ruining this company

Pros

- Kickass benefits and a fun workplace
- Above average compensation
- Clear direction from management (personal opinion)
- Flexible work hours and locations
- Free food, gym, healthcare, coffee and candy!!
- Top level view of the online space - great value addition
Apart from that, the scope of the work that you do, the exposure that you get both, within the org and outside of it, is invaluable. In the online space, there is no comparison to Yahoo! that gives you a complete overall picture of the market. The regular freebies, picnics and parties add to the fun. The free and open culture, as well as being in the company of some very intelligent people adds to the great times.

Cons

The downsides, though few, deserve an important mention here. As most of you know, Yahoo! is going through a tough transformational phase, so there is this inherent risk that is associated with a job with Yahoo (think job security and the "L" word). The good thing is though, that not all positions and profiles are at a similar risk. Again, the recent cost cutting measures rub some of the sheen from the workplace and work life, but I guess in these times, we just have to grin and bear it. Apart from that, some changes and redundancies take a lot of time to fix, but I guess with the new management in place, this would change as well.

Advice to Senior Management

Take tough decisions - but don't lose focus on making it a fun place for employees again.

Pros

Good for work and life balance. Flexible working hours and generally nice people. Good perk and benefit, informal and easy going environment

Cons

Company is lack of direction overall. Heavy middle management and lack of responsibilities of individual and team. Innovation and hardworking doesn't get rewarded as they used to be

Advice to Senior Management

focus

Pros

You get paid the same whether you work or not. And if you're an engineer you're virtually immuned to getting laid off

Cons

Come on. This is yahoo. It would take too long to list everything.

In short

1) Company lacks focus. Too many people trying to do too many things at the same time
2) More product managers than engineers
3) More development managers than engineers
4) Lots of people who have worked for a very long time and feel entitled to not doing any work
5) Company that repeatedly threw retention cash bonuses at people to get them to stay, even though they didn't do any work
6) Infrastructure a total disaster. Yahoo's core infrastructure is a hacked up BSD release that only old timer Yahoo's know how things are slapped together.

Advice to Senior Management

Quit or fire yourself.