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Jul 2, 2009
Details
Compensation & Benefits
5.0
Career Opportunities
5.0
Recognition & Feedback
3.5
Communication
4.5
Senior Leadership
5.0
Employee Morale
5.0
Work/Life Balance
2.5
Fairness & Respect
4.5
Pros
Great folks, can-do attitude, the salaries are great, lively environment, great location in California
Cons
Bonuses are stingy, teams do not always collaborate, takes too much time to get other teams to do things right (may impede your own progress), data quality is highly buggy and takes too much time to figure out, too many migration projects and stale projects, too little support on important projects, product managers sometimes run the show (into the ground)
Advice to Senior Management
Please see my comments above, and try to retain the best employees.
Jun 30, 2009
Details
Compensation & Benefits
3.5
Career Opportunities
2.0
Recognition & Feedback
3.5
Communication
1.0
Senior Leadership
1.0
Employee Morale
1.0
Work/Life Balance
5.0
Fairness & Respect
1.5
Pros
You can get away with not doing anything all day if you play your cards right.
Cons
The company is like a rudderless ship, lost in the ocean. It almost feels like senior management decides strategy on a trial and error basis. Re-orgs are constant. I myself had 4 different managers in one year. Some people had up to 7 different managers that same year. Politics and bureaucracy dominates everything.
Advice to Senior Management
Get a clue.
Jun 27, 2009
Details
Compensation & Benefits
5.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Recognition & Feedback
3.5
Communication
2.0
Senior Leadership
3.0
Employee Morale
3.0
Work/Life Balance
1.5
Fairness & Respect
2.5
Pros
Great company culture. Yahoo cares about its employees. Lots of company pride, activities, events, contests, etc. Higher than average salaries.
Cons
Internally in chaos. Difficult to get anything done. Constantly changing priorities, abandoned projects. If your project nears completion, expect it to be cancelled at last minute due to new ever changing priorities.
Advice to Senior Management
Stop trying to imitate other companies and find your own strength. Don't have to jump on every trendy bandwagon to prove your worth.
Jun 18, 2009
Details
Compensation & Benefits
3.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Recognition & Feedback
3.0
Communication
1.5
Senior Leadership
1.5
Employee Morale
1.0
Work/Life Balance
2.0
Fairness & Respect
1.0
Pros
* Salary is comparably good
* Good parties
* Ok cafetaria
* Diverse work force
* easily accesible work location in CA
Cons
* Clueless management
* Inexperienced people
* Most skills learnt on an engineering job are not transferable. Platforms, tools, methodologies are home grown.
Advice to Senior Management
Get professional management. Stop promoting project managers, engineers without experience to management positions. Stop passing the buck around. Try to get things done.
Jun 17, 2009
Details
Compensation & Benefits
3.0
Career Opportunities
2.5
Recognition & Feedback
4.0
Communication
3.0
Senior Leadership
2.0
Employee Morale
4.0
Work/Life Balance
4.0
Fairness & Respect
3.0
Pros
- You're surrounded of talented and creative and cool employees.
- The work, despite the occasional distractions and annoyances, the work is still satisfying
- You'll keep on top of the latest and greatest web and consumer internet design
- Nice environment (if you're on the Sunnyvale Campus... not so great on the other campuses like Santa Clara)
Cons
- Morale is generally not great because of attrition and layoffs and Yahoo! is getting beaten up in the press
- Management is always shuffling around and there are alot of political turf wars
- Consensus driven (impossible to make a quick decision and move quickly). For a Product Manager this is especially frustrating and undermining.
Advice to Senior Management
Focus on product excellence and delighting consumers. Depoliticize the management team.
Jun 17, 2009
Details
Compensation & Benefits
3.5
Career Opportunities
2.0
Recognition & Feedback
3.0
Communication
3.0
Senior Leadership
3.0
Employee Morale
2.5
Work/Life Balance
2.5
Fairness & Respect
3.5
Pros
Yahoo is a decent place to work .. not the best place but manageable. I think there should improve further for ppl to grow.
Cons
its political CEO is not that great and she is determined to make sure that the company suffers in the long run
Advice to Senior Management
yahoo leadership should start focussing on the work in hand and not to do some random things like what they are doing now
Jun 9, 2009
Details
Compensation & Benefits
4.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Recognition & Feedback
3.0
Communication
3.5
Senior Leadership
1.0
Employee Morale
5.0
Work/Life Balance
5.0
Fairness & Respect
3.5
Pros
Yahoo is a great place to work. They understand work life balance. They treat employees as humans, not resources. Overall its definitely the best place I've ever worked at.
Cons
It's a big company that is stuck with many acquisitions, and along with that, many different platforms for running the site. Everyone has their own way of doing things and usually they don't want to accept other ways. They need to standardize on one thing, not ten.
Advice to Senior Management
Pay attention to your employees ideas and the market. I felt like the upper management did not pay attention to the very brilliant people working there or the direction of the market (besides what wall street thought).
Jun 8, 2009
Details
Compensation & Benefits
3.0
Career Opportunities
2.5
Recognition & Feedback
3.0
Communication
2.5
Senior Leadership
1.0
Employee Morale
3.0
Work/Life Balance
3.5
Fairness & Respect
2.0
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.
Jun 7, 2009
Details
Compensation & Benefits
5.0
Career Opportunities
4.5
Recognition & Feedback
3.0
Communication
4.0
Senior Leadership
2.0
Employee Morale
4.5
Work/Life Balance
3.5
Fairness & Respect
2.5
Pros
Good folks to work with, interesting problems to work on. You have a chance to make an enormous impact on a large number of people. Yahoo! defines the term 'Internet Scale'.
Cons
Upper Management is still acting as if Yahoo! is still a garage start-up; middle Management is more concerned with the political infighting than supporting the troops in the trenches. Politics getting in the way of Progress....
Advice to Senior Management
Flatten the structure, get rid of the assorted VP's and Executive VP's. Decide on where the Company is going to be in five years and go for it. Quit reacting to Wall Street and listen to your User base.
Jun 2, 2009
Details
Compensation & Benefits
3.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Recognition & Feedback
1.5
Communication
2.5
Senior Leadership
1.0
Employee Morale
3.0
Work/Life Balance
4.0
Fairness & Respect
3.0
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.
