Pros

good company, very nice place to employee, the culture are very relax.
you can learn a lot in the company and enjoy your life.

Cons

bad stratagies for the whole company. Made many mistakes. They should have a clear idea for what to do in the future.

Advice to Senior Management

They should have a clear idea for what to do in the future. A CEO who know internet should be found.

Pros

Yahoo! continues to have plenty of intellectual talent despite waves of re-orgs and layoffs. CEO and CTO send a clearer message to folks on where to focus and to understand what's important.

Cons

Competing fiefdoms and platforms continue to plague execution of strategies to unify disparate systems. Internal re-orgs continue to impact employee morale, managers and engineering resources are starved in some areas.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to have stronger direction on which platforms live or die. Product management need to articulate better vision to compete with new and stronger competitors such as FB and Twitter.

Pros

Most people love Yahoo!
Pretty good salary

Cons

Innovation not happening everywhere
Some managers are not good

Advice to Senior Management

Hire better managers, let go the others
Decisions should be made faster
Most people have no idea where Yahoo! is going and they don't seem to care

Pros

Lots of data to work on, interesting problems to work on, some great colleagues, well known brand, lots of users, not bad perks at all

Cons

No career growth, too big a company, no vision or roadmap for future, too slow and bulky, insanely low morale

Advice to Senior Management

Get out

Pros

y! is different. its a content company. it started as one, and always, in its heart, it will be about serving interesting and useful content.

as a developer, its an interesting place to be. you are on the front-lines, you see the business and processes, and you deal with the best and proven web technologies out there.

you learn a lot, the pay is competitive, and the work-life balance is great.

the best thing about yahoo is that you work at a company that caters to the masses: i went into the company being a hardcore code monkey, and came out with an appreciation for the common internet surfer. really opened my eyes to the opportunities of enabling others to use the web.

Cons

being compared to google.

i just want to say. if you want to be a real code monkey, working in inane problems that no one else sees. work for google.

Advice to Senior Management

be more transparent about management and strategy decisions. we trust you, but we want to know where this is headed.

Pros

- you are surrounded by a lot of smart people
- the salary is good
- products with huge user bases

Cons

- the companies reputation is dying
- middle management is really incompetent
- they wait for people to get offers from other places before giving promotions / raises

Advice to Senior Management

They should start by firing the 300+ VPs they have in the company. The middle management is out of touch with the ground realities and waste a lot of time sucking up to their boses.

Pros

- You'll make friends with lots of your coworkers, many of whom are very talented
- Ability to take on more responsibility and get exposure
- Up to date systems
- Casual work environment, no suits here

Cons

- Finance is downsizing, so there's few openings or opportunities for growth
- Existing employees are being asked to take on more and more work with increasingly narrow job descriptions
- Salaries and levels have been frozen for 1 year - creating an effective backlog of employees waiting for career advancement who have been given little encouragement that any will come
- Bartz's new management team doesn't seem to have a clue about how to run the business, throwing money at problems without setting in place accountability and goals beforehand - witness the laughable multimillion dollar "brand relaunch" campaign

Advice to Senior Management

If Yahoo! really cared about employee retention, it seems minimally management would constantly communicate about all the things it's doing to fix the problems employees have been raising via employee surveys for the past 3 years. Better yet, fix the problems.

Pros

Large scale, interesting problems to solve, lots of smart people

Cons

Management's incapacity of making a decision and executing on it
Almost impossible to increase salary
Impossible to work solving the interesting problems, because of management inability to think
No clear path of ownership and accountability

Advice to Senior Management

1. Take a decision and follow through
2. Pay more attention to underperforming middle management

Pros

- Flexible hours if need be. You can really manage your own schedule and people do respect it, or stay quiet about.
- Cross-functional teams are mostly beneficial to everyone involved.

Cons

- Constant rumors of layoffs
- Not bringing innovative products to market
- Feeling of stagnation
- Exec shuffles never end

Advice to Senior Management

- Stop the incessant re-orgs
- Hire senior management in the location were the team actually resides
- Start innovating

Pros

Yahoo is (was) a great company. The work environment is good, the people are smart, and there's opportunity for high impact. Also, you get good perks, benefits, and a competitive salary.

Cons

Getting rid of the search team, I'm not so sure about. Yahoo wants to become a smaller company. Will their technical leadership stick around?

Advice to Senior Management

I don't know what Yahoo leadership is doing. Selling off search may be a smart business decision on it's own, but do they realize that all the talent (search team or not) is leaving with them?