Great place to work, lots of potential - Anonymous employee Yammer Employee Review

3.0
Jan 20, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you are in engineering, Yammer is great. You will get treated exceptionally well. The rest of the company will get fed, great benefits, average pay and a pleasant environment to work along with great people. So long as you can stand tight quarters and noise. It's a great product with a lot of potential if we can get away from the "Facebook clone" image. The company is very open and most problems come to light and are addressed very quickly, usually in a fair way.

Cons

If you are not in engineering you will find your life revolving around engineers who have little concept of the real world and think they know everyone's job better than they do. If you misstep and accidentally offend one, which happens often, you will hear about it from the highest echelons of management since they won't deal with you directly. The openness of Yammer has a down side in that everyone has an opinion on everything and gets upset if a decision is made that is not "listening to them" usually this blows over quickly but can be frustrating.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 27, 2016
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Pros

* Wonderful people. Some of the best people I've ever worked with. Smart, friendly, easy-going. * Great work/life balance. Low drama environment leads to a pleasant workday. The company is mostly not-deadline driven, so the pace of work is rarely breakneck. * Management is generous and easy to get along with. * No email to deal with. Nobody in Yammer sends each other email. Everyone uses Yammer, which is better than email. * Total compensation is generous * Almost nobody uses Windows at a Microsoft-owned company -- all laptops are Macs * Gorgeous huge spacious office * Generously stocked food, free lunch and dinner. * Fun hackdays & offsites

Cons

* The product is stagnant. Too many competing product goals make big improvements nearly impossible. Local maxima was long ago acheived. Projects drag out too long, the pace of improvement is glacial. * The web product hasn't changed much since the acquisition in 2012, though the iphone and android app have improved a lot. * The product has some significant persistent bugs that make it feel somewhat unprofessional to use, bugs that are so expensive to fix that the engineering org is unwilling to invest in fixing them. * There's a certain amount of subtle background disdain for Microsoft among some Yammer employees. This is understandable to a degree, given MSFT's arcane bureaucracy. * The culture has experienced a slow motion death-by-a-thousand-cuts since the acquisition in 2012. It's still a great culture, still much better than most office environments, but the culture is slowly eroding. * Morale is very quietly pretty low -- lots of new hires are required to replace all the people who are leaving.

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