Yahoo Reviews in Santa Clara, CA

Pros

This is a good place to explore open-source technoloties.

Cons

software engineering was poorly handled. management only cares about numbers.

Advice to Senior Management

put more focus on software engineering.

Pros

Free Coffee and nice coworkers

Cons

Top down communication is bad

Advice to Senior Management

senior management needs to do something about company morale.

Pros

good work environment at yahoo

Cons

decline in innovation at yahoo

Advice to Senior Management

stop chasing competitors, pave own ways.

Pros

Good benefit
Competitive Salary.
Good resource to learn and grow, yahoo has many talents and resources.
Nice work environment with some good people

Cons

Mid-management team is a mess.
A lot of projects going south without getting noticed
Not enough room to grow for hands on developers career wise
You either get into meetings all the time or code without being a leader.

Advice to Senior Management

Execution is key. Yahoo! is losing its edge as a tech company that can bring out competitive products. Many things are done on the surface, but underneath, the development process is a mess and can no longer execute well.

Pros

1.Very good place to grow
2. Good salary & pay

Cons

1. Management is very bad
2. Frequent lay offs
3. Seems like everybody works under pressure

Advice to Senior Management

Stop concentrating on lay offs and rehires instead put some effort on how to make use of existing talent and help them grow as well as help grow the company.

Pros

nice work culture,friendly,many things to learn

Cons

Difficult to get recognized. Lots of processes tend to slow the progress of a task or improvement.Overall not bad.

Advice to Senior Management

Management may look towards streamlining the processes in place for project implementation. give yahoo employees better benefits in terms of health,transportation.

Pros

One has opportunities to learn and innovate in different areas software and unstructured data analysis. Depending on individual interest one can increase specialized skills.

Cons

It is not clear how the company can retain its market share with the current product set (when new companies are taking away the market)

Advice to Senior Management

Define the company and product vision better. Try bold moves to increase the employee confidence. Try to keep the talent at various levels.

Pros

Yahoo! is great for getting experience with working on large scale engineering problems at a well known, highly respected company. You may work on systems that serve tens of millions of people per day.

Also, the company is very good with work-life balance. The interactions among coworkers (individual contributors at least) are generally quite friendly, relaxed, and supportive.

Cons

Management structure is pretty dysfunctional: there are simply too many managers that seem to drag any decision making and planning out for too long. I've seen too many times the situation where 5 or more managers/stakeholders call for several meetings to discuss what will only take 1 developer a few weeks to work on.

Also, the incessant negative news articles and blog posts from the media can be a downer, in terms of morale and engagement.

Advice to Senior Management

Streamline the org! This will make the company more operationally efficient, faster moving, and reduce the cost structure. It may also improve morale.

Pros

- Chance to work with really talented and highly motivated people
- Technology stack is good
- Problems faced are challenging

Cons

- Transparency
- Need to be more agile

Advice to Senior Management

- People need to be held accountable
- Need more transparency in feeback and review

Pros

flexible work schedule, friendly working environment. do not have to do a lot work at night or weekend. overall ok

Cons

promotion is not easy to get. talent people leaving yahoo. high turn over rate. management decision change frequently. not feel very stable.

Advice to Senior Management

more respect to engineers. make decision making process more open to engineers. more compensation. more and more and more consistent strategy.