Yahoo Reviews

Pros

- atmosphere, quality of colleagues, ideas

Cons

- discouraged by the bad press

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work

Pros

- Interesting work and challenges
- Massive compute and storage scale
- Training, conferences, travel ops just enough to keep things interesting not overwhelming
- Employees treated like "gold". 2x better than any of my past employers
- Good work/life balance on most teams
- Excellent compensation and benefits

Cons

- Lots of churn in management.
- Lots of churn in staff, mostly old timers tired of change.

Advice to Senior Management

Yahoo is a complex environment. Learning all the processes, procedures, and technology takes time. Bleeding too many experienced employees stunts progress. 1 employee with 5 years experience is worth more than 5 employees with no experience.

Pros

A lot of talented people working there.
Very good atmosphere.
A lot of place for innovation and high degree of freedom.

Cons

The future of the company is pretty vague...

Pros

- Great benefits
- Talented people
- Good work / life balance
- 401K matching
- Tuition reimbursements
- Creative culture

Cons

- Times Square location sucks (too much foot traffic, tourists, etc.)
- Company morale is very low
- Multiple leadership shakeups with no clear direction

Pros

Yahoo! definitely deserves the title as premier digital company. Both inside and out, the company tries its upmost to provide the best service to both it's clients, employees and stakeholders. A truly magnificent organization that has shaped todays web.

Cons

Highly dynamic industry bringing much uncertainty with recent shake-ups in structure from top-down however this is very much part of the Internet industry overall.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to develop a great workplace and culture that inspires employees, develop and attract great leadership while continuing to grow the business through world-class advertising solutions and strategic M&A deals with high potential start-ups and web properties. Google and Facebook will continue to gain momentum through monopolistic positions in search and social respectfully, however Yahoo! can win in the display marketplace if it continues to deliver on advertisers needs.

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

Managers are down-to-earth and really nice
great pantry
Friday bash can be fun
Smart and nice colleagues
Good technology

Cons

In Beijing it's usually fixing bugs
Not so much creativity
Product details are not optimized

Advice to Senior Management

More creativity

Pros

good pay - above average for valley prob
good benefits - no complaints
good people - although leaving
laid back atmosphere

Cons

incompetent management
too much management - how many Senior Directors and above?
unfairness in promotions/compensation
reorgs - expect a new manager every 6 months or so
layoffs - expect at least 1 a year

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management should quit - or force peers to quit. Communicate more to all employees instead of trying to gloss over problems - address them.

Pros

The internship was challenging and interesting and you were surrounded by really knowledgeable people. Overall good experience for my future career, and a good line to have in your CV

Cons

The uncertainty around Yahoo's situation was very disturbing. Some parts of our project got cancelled because of rearrangements in Yahoo's assets. A lot of people were on the fence about staying or leaving.

Advice to Senior Management

Find a way to leverage the great talent at Yahoo and rally it around a unified focused vision and product.

Pros

- Very smart and pleasant colleagues.
- Interesting work -- Y! still has a number of the leading web properties in the US and WW.
- Generally collaborative and friendly culture.
- Great pay and benefits.

Cons

- Within Silicon Valley, the brand has suffered a lot and it is not as 'cool' to work at Y! is it is at FB or G. (Outside of Silicon Valley people recognize it as experience at a top company + like the brand a lot and tend to think it is very cool that you have worked there.)
- Multiple re-orgs can be tiring, but hopefully that's behind Y! with the new CEO as of early 2012.

Advice to Senior Management

- Make sure employees know that they have been heard & understood before restructuring what they are working on. Also make sure they understand the logic behind the new direction.
- Make fundamental choices about the businesses Y! should be in, and then stick to them.