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    Yahoo Reviews

    Updated December 14, 2018
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    1. "Senior Technical Writer"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Yahoo full-time

      Pros

      Great people and way to move up.

      Cons

      Layoffs for years made them loose good people.

    2. "financial analyst"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      great perks and great culture

      Cons

      high turnover in overall company

    3. "Technical Yahoo"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Yahoo full-time

      Pros

      Flexibility nice colleagues, good project and facilities

      Cons

      Too little control, lack of product direction

    4. "Producer"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      Pros

      Good pay, benefits, people. Free food

      Cons

      Long hours hectic pace sometimes

      Advice to Management

      Less micromanage

    5. "Purple spirit never die"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Yahoo full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      happy family, good benefits and great working colleagues

      Cons

      too much work and under resource

    6. "Good place to learn"

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      Former Employee - Mobile Developer in San Francisco, CA
      Former Employee - Mobile Developer in San Francisco, CA
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Yahoo full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      I was a junior engineer and I got to work with some really intelligent senior people. They always made time for me and they really helped me grow as an engineer.

      Cons

      Management from the very top could be all over the place and cataclysmic shifts in the direction of the product occurred every year.

    7. "Great people, questionable direction"

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      Former Employee - Senior Software Development Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Senior Software Development Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Yahoo full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      - Exceptional engineering talent: I worked with some of the brightest and most professional people I have ever met
      - Great educational and advancement opportunities for new grads (Engineering Associates Program, Design Associates Program, etc)
      - EXCELLENT benefits, which is to say, very competitive benefits in Silicon Valley (free meals, gym, on-site health and wellness center, great insurance, 401k matching, etc)
      - Generous PTO policy: 15 -> 20 PTO days after 3 years, 6 floating holidays (you get them immediately at the beginning of the year, no slow accrual), unlimited sick days

      Cons

      - Retention: the company struggles with retaining this aforementioned talent
      - Since the Verizon acquisition, corporate leadership feels fairly distant, and mostly interested in the sales side of the company
      - Varying levels of quality and leadership across different divisions of the company

      Advice to Management

      Pick a few areas where the company either has traction or is actually dominant, even if they aren't huge money makers (e.g., Fantasy Sports) and invest heavily in them, while continuing to prune efforts that just aren't working. Also, instill a culture of transparency, where employees are not afraid to report mistakes (particularly security-related ones)!

    8. "Company review"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Yahoo full-time

      Pros

      good technology, open source contributions

      Cons

      Missed opportunities, too many CEOs

    9. "principal software enginner"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Yahoo full-time

      Pros

      work load is not big

      Cons

      execution is slow. PM quality is low.

    10. "Good Company"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Yahoo full-time

      Pros

      Best company to work at in the early years

      Cons

      Too slow to adapt. Lost focus and fell behind google