Yahoo Reviews in Santa Clara, CA

Pros

Opportunity to work with a large variety of challenges on a daily basis.

Cons

After the sales to Microsoft, most people were trying to jump off the ship.
We had sendoff parties every few weeks.

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

Top people are really top notch. The technologies you learn there will translate well to many other companies.

Cons

Software dev methodology is often behind the industry, legacy code is really bad. Constant high profile company turmoil.

Pros

Yahoo is a great place to get your feet wet with Internet technologies and big datasets. The office culture is very pleasant and there are still a lot of very talented people working here.

Cons

Yahoo has been in decline for a long time, and I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. The company has lost a huge amount of talent over the past few years, especially after the search deal with MS.

Advice to Senior Management

Find a way to make Yahoo cool again. Branch out into some new markets that aren't completely occupied by FB and Google. Release some daring new products and don't worry about trying to be like Google. Find your own identity and carve out your own slice of the pie.

Pros

Great place to work
Lots of smart people
Good perks, 401k
Usually good middle management, dependent of your group of course

Cons

The senior management just doesn't know how to innovate.
The board of director appears to be completely inept, and Mrs Bartz should have been fired by now

Advice to Senior Management

Innovation, innovation, innovation. Yahoo has some great sites like Finance or Flickr, but doing nothing with them is not the way to go.

Pros

1. Brand name helps resume
2. Good base salaries
3. Competent salaries
4. Big name to work for
5. Can learn new technologies.

Cons

1. Not fair Sr. managment
2. they need to reinvent on the management front.
3. kick the bums out and hire new good ones.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Respect at work
2. Treat emplpoyees fairly
3. Work life balanace need to be given importance
4. Fair compensation

Pros

communication is open to any one in the company for suggestion and learning
lot of open source technology for self learning
classes on open source technologies (superficial but good at the start of career)
Worked with most reputed team in sciences lead by Neumeyer.

Cons

pathetic management
all powers in the hand of manager and he can screw you any way he can.
absolute monopoly from management with no clear communication of strategies
Manager might screw you personally as he has lot of powers
not only ruined my career but also troubled my personal life.

Advice to Senior Management

Please give up politics, you have any way wasted the time of talented people in past couple of years by misleading directions, and firing well deserving working on stupid management ideas.

Pros

Relaxed, and the benefit is good

Cons

Unfairness in term of work load sharing, people not rewarded base on their performance

Advice to Senior Management

Management need to care more of their work and try to be communicative

Pros

Love their coffee at Beantrees cafe ;)
Fast paced
Cutting edge technology
Opportunity to learn a lot

Cons

Senior mangement are clueless
My Program Manager was a Micro Manager who did not have much work on his plate

Advice to Senior Management

Instead of cutting jobs & constantly revamping your strategy, have your gameplan in place.

Pros

Inspiring smart people around
Good recognition if you work hard

Cons

Management is making a move towards being a media company. Even though its the only chance for Yahoo to survive, for engineers its a little disheartening.
The worldly view of Yahoo sucks and Yahoo is not able to change it.

Advice to Senior Management

Its a hard puzzle to solve. Everybody talks about how Yahoo is going down but nobody seems to have a clue if given a chance or nobody wants to give Yahoo a chance. So screw those people and move on with the current strategy. This is the last chance and hopefully it will work