Yahoo Reviews in Sunnyvale, CA

Pros

great company and environment, you get a chance to work with great skilled people.

Cons

management keeps changing. focus of company's direction keeps changing.

Advice to Senior Management

focus on right products and right practices.

Pros

Large campus perks (gym, cafeteria, IT onsite support - all superb), health and 401k matching benefits, commuting support (shuttles and financial),

Cons

Leadership, planning, communication, documentation, process, follow-through all lacking.

Advice to Senior Management

Plan. Document. Communicate. Follow-through.

Pros

- Great benefits like insurance, 401K etc.
- Good friendly people
- Treats employees well and with respect
- decent brand

Cons

- going downhill - it has been like that for a few years now
- way too complex, difficult to get things done

Advice to Senior Management

- Stop the recurring cycle of layoffs and then going on a hiring binge
- Find ways to reduce complexity

Pros

People are friendly and warm. Work on the in things

Cons

Too many re-orgs. Need to prove to a new guy every 3 months. Too many silos., silos, silos

Advice to Senior Management

Break the silos...create consolidated teams that are end to end...execution will be faster and better. Employees will have more job satisfaction and will find new interesting challenges. Just doing scrum / agile is meaningless when you have so many silos

Pros

good employees .. really nice work culture .. not much processes to hassle you .. lot to learn

Cons

no direction .. senior management sucks .. compensation is not good .. lots of meetings .. product managers really a drag for engineering

Pros

It is possible to separate your personal and professional life. Awesome engineers always willing to help and contribute. Nice campus.

Cons

Several reorgs and layoffs yearly making immigrant life (those requesting a green card to stay) miserable. Reactive talent retention and terrible compensation adjustment policy, one got to announce s/he is leaving in order to get a decent $.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop treating engineers as linear people. Everyone is different and it is not fair to adjust compensation equally when some are clearly performing better than others. Stop reorgs and layoffs

Pros

Most people there are trying to do the right thing.
There's a very low schmuck factor.
Getting experience with the Billions-scale traffic is priceless experience
Management is TRYING to undo many years of aimless decision-making
Some of the most annoying legacy employees are moving on or being moved aside
Blake and Carol are taking on sacred cows and improving alignment among the teams.

Cons

There's only a half-plan right now... it's encouraging but not enough.

No consistent approach to engineering, product management or program management. Don't come to Yahoo expecting to learn a Yahoo-way... there isn't one. SDLC is handled completely differently in different orgs, which makes it difficult to execute on cross-company initiatives.

Advice to Senior Management

The company needs to be willing to impose process on people even if they don't want it.

The company should demand weekly or monthly releases...3-6 month cycle in some areas to release simple features is unacceptable.

Pros

Good people and smart people

Cons

senior management appears risk adverse. Difficult to steer a larger company quickly.

Advice to Senior Management

If Yahoo is to remain a growth company new businesses will need to be aquired or cultivated from within. When growing from within think long term and don't grow a group 300% and expect it to produce game changing revenue immediately.

Pros

Very talented people and felt like you were part of a community.

Cons

Lack of focus on business and core competencies

Advice to Senior Management

Business focus

Pros

+ work-life balance
+ great benefits, compensation package
+ amazing works
+ very relaxed environment
+ company culture is imbued thoroughly

Cons

+ how can I become a millionaire if keep working at Yahoo during my 20s ?

Advice to Senior Management

Be more adventurous outside of the social fads, such as enterprise cloud computing, mobile development, and more.