Employee Review
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Office politics at its worst!
Apr 22, 2015 - Editorial Director in Sunnyvale, CARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Free food. Plus, you get to see a young, blonde female incarnation of Josef Stalin in action.
Cons
Yahoo stack ranks its employees every 90 days, which turns everybody into a number. That's by design, because it avoids the negative publicity associated with constant layoffs (which would happen if managers weren't always blaming employees for poor performance). Managers simply give anyone they don't like a negative rating, and the company evades California's WARN Act.
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Other Employee Reviews
- Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
friendly vibes
May 2, 2023 - Senior Software Engineer in Boston, MARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
good pay supportive, relaxed, no pressure atmosphere emerging / state of the art technology lot of development opportunities, trainings good pto after a few years
Cons
pay could be better may not be lot of promo options due to business uncertainties
- Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
I think it's a solid place to work in a post Covid world.
May 25, 2023 - Senior Principal Software EngineerRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
The company does well and has huge reach. They've fully embraced remote work, so it's a great company for experienced engineers who want to maintain balance with family life. I almost never work nights and weekends and nobody expects me to. Lot's of very smart, friendly people. I like the current leaders.
Cons
Yahoo has its legacy business that pays the rent, so there aren't the shiny new products that seem like they'd be fun to work on like self driving cars or AI products. Because it's a been eclipsed by bigger tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon it doesn't get much attention or credit as a tech company from the media. That makes it harder to attract talent. It appears I'm paid less than I could be, especially without the stock options of a public company.
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