Yahoo Reviews in India

Pros

Employee care is excellent! Personal growth too!

Cons

Leadership is not so strong. Poor in execution.

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

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.

Pros

Balanced HR Practices
Great technologies

Cons

Week leadership
Bad Press
Excessive cost cutting

Advice to Senior Management

Where is CEO?

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

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

Cons

current distuptions, leadership flaws, bad handling of media

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

Great Talent
Excellent culture
Rich History
Huge impact at end user level

Cons

Need strong leadership
Needs better management framework

Pros

As a leaf node, you really don't care about the overall status of the company. But the work done here is great!

Cons

The current state of the company. As a result of which the salaries are slightly lower than say Adobe, Microsoft.

Advice to Senior Management

Give way for younger people. We know technology!
Secondly, moving away and positioning ourself as a media company is not great.

Pros

transport option + fantastic cafetoria+ creche for ladies + mac /blackberry/work from home that may be a dream in service companies. Great place for the folks straight out of college who have never seen MNC grandeur in NIT and IITs ! Good place for max 2-3 years at the beginning of your career. If you are a senior person with the only aim of making decent salary ( dont care about how you make it), then it is a good place too! You cannot see a single news in Internet about innovation in Yahoo but here you seem think that you are innovating ;-) In a way, that sounds a whole lot like those offshore development centres but here you get high end salary for the same. Not a bad deal from that perspective!

Cons

Most immature leadership ( a bunch of jokers and only in Yahoo, it is possible!) ; they say they do engineering but the VPs /leaders have not grown beyond website mindset; the company has lost it's direction long time back and the India leadership is just focussed on satisfying the US senior management ; they say that is execution):- Anybody decent who comes from other decent engineering org, cannot survive here unless you have the stomach to digest this absolute rot ! Most senior directors can be safely demoted to engineering managers. They say the engineering is agile but actually it is like Brownian motion ( net progess is zero). Probably yahoo is the only captive in Bangalore that has a fat cat director of communication with an army of communication folks. If you take out the internal branding/communication budget and see through the immaturity of the leaders/processes here, it's a very ordinary place !! It's a dead place except for those freshers who are recently into programming and those directors/VPs who will normally never get such position in a standard company. The company has lot of assets but it's leadership in every place is a liability that is bringing the company down for past 10 years.

Advice to Senior Management

Quit .. by now you must have made enough money