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    Yahoo Reviews

    Updated June 18, 2018
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    Pros

    • "Work/life balance (almost no extra working hours need)" (in 269 reviews)

    • "Free food: I mean all kind of healthy food you know" (in 364 reviews)

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    1. "Best Company Culture"

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      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Director in New York, NY
      Former Employee - Director in New York, NY
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Yahoo full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Incredible culture. Strong Alumni Network. Big Mission.

      Cons

      Became too political. Intoxicated by the board short term focus on stock price

      Advice to Management

      Focus on long term customer value & invest in talent

    2. "Fun and Exciting...While It Lasted"

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

      I worked at Yahoo full-time

      Pros

      Great work culture, exciting products, management transparency

      Cons

      Since the last CEO left, the overall company excitement went down. Difficult to move up.

      Advice to Management

      Consider revamping and building on existing products instead of creating new ones from scratch.

    3. "Great place!"

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

      I worked at Yahoo full-time

      Pros

      Work life balance, coworkers, room for growth and personal development

      Cons

      Lot of changes, tons of turnover

    4. "Director Global Shared Services"

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      Former Employee - Director Shared Services in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Director Shared Services in Sunnyvale, CA
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Yahoo full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      It was a fun and engaging place to work, full of great people and the work/life balance was as much as one could ask for.

      Cons

      Constantly trying to do more with less

      Advice to Management

      Keep fighting the good fight. It's a great product that means a lot to a lot of people and I hope the umbrella (and reach) of Verizon gives you a chance to get back to the mountain top

    5. "Best company to work for"

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      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Yahoo full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Good culture, provides fair chances to improve your career

      Cons

      Top heavy, race to impress someone you don't even work with to get a promotion.

      Advice to Management

      Doing well, keep going to make the Oath an awesome company.

    6. "Marketing"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sunnyvale, CA

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

      Pros

      The food is free and good. The environment and atmosphere is great. Not stuffy and serious.

      Cons

      Management is very junior and clueless on today's industry technology. All of the tech stacks are siloed making it difficult to truly know the health of the business. There are a lot of older employees there that do not embrace change very well. Most of the employees there are just holding on to a job and not producing much of anything. Their systems are custom built by engineers that wouldn't be very beneficial at other companies.

      Advice to Management

      Hopefully the CEO will make a huge difference by cleaning out the old technology and people and start fresh.

    7. "Keep alert, keep adapting, and you can go far."

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      Former Employee - Project Manager in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Project Manager in Sunnyvale, CA
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Yahoo full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      - Immense reach, your work will have an impact on people
      - Friendly, intelligent coworkers with a good sense of work/life balance
      - You wil meet so many people who will work in many other companies, its great for networking, so long as you are competent and friendly.

      Cons

      - Architectural debt.
      - The winds shift from executives a lot, which I guess a pro, if you're willing to keep your head on a swivel

      Advice to Management

      Institute a policy of fewer meetings.

    8. "Was a great place to work"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sunnyvale, CA
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Yahoo full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      I was working there for a long time and really enjoyed the team spirit

      Cons

      The last years the company was managed by an unexperienced CEO

    9. "Sr Storage Engineer"

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      Former Employee - Senior Storage Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Senior Storage Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Yahoo full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Great place to work, Wonderfull talented people, working. Opportunity work on latest technologies.

      Cons

      Lack of vision

    10. Helpful (3)

      "toxic environment"

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      Former Employee - Software Development Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Software Development Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Disapproves of CEO

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

      Pros

      Lunch is really great. Campus is good.

      Cons

      Hardworking engineers are constantly bullied by incompetent engineering managers, project managers, etc. Meetings over and over, and expect things happen magically. You can expect to get help from your managers. If you work there long enough, you are able to make friends with other people, that is the best route.

      Advice to Management

      It's not difficult to tell who are those bad apples. but why bother, right?

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