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Yahoo Employee Reviews about "upper management"

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(124 total reviews)

CEO Jim Lanzone

Jim Lanzone

69% approve of CEO

Ratings by category

4.4

Work/Life Balance

4.2

Diversity & Inclusion

4.1

Culture & Values

4.0

Compensation and Benefits

3.6

Career Opportunities

3.6

Senior Management

Ratings distribution

5 stars

24%

4 stars

37%

3 stars

25%

2 stars

9%

1 star

5%

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Pros
  • "you get to work with (sometimtes) great people and hours are very flexible.(in 666 reviews)
  • "Good benefits (great for mums)(in 461 reviews)
  • "covid the culture and atmosphere was great but not anymore I guess(in 342 reviews)
  • "Generally work life balance at Yahoo! is good except for 20 percent of the jobs.(in 291 reviews)
  • "free food and resources(in 270 reviews)
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Found 124 of over 6K reviews

Updated Dec 5, 2023

Reviews about "upper management"

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    1. 4.0
      Jul 1, 2015
      Senior Marketing Manager
      Former Employee
      Sunnyvale, CA
      Recommend
      CEO Approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Really great, smart people to work with.

      Cons

      Lack of clear decision making. Promotion structure is lacking and extremely arbitrary with quarterly review cycle. Upper management constantly changing focus and direction

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      1. 4.0
        Sep 20, 2014
        Small Business Web Hosting Support
        Former Employee, more than 3 years
        Hillsboro, OR
        Recommend
        CEO Approval
        Business Outlook

        Pros

        There is definitely room for advancement if you can show ability to take on the tasks. The company is very open to employee input for solving issues or creating new tools. The health benefits package is very good. Immediate management are knowledgable of the product and advocate for their employees.

        Cons

        As usual in a large corporation, one department may not be aware of what another is doing. Upper management can be disconnected from what your team needs to do a job as efficiently as possible. Despite preaching customer appreciation/specific service levels, money is the ultimate determining factor on some decisions to the detriment of the product and brand. Corporate higher ups can sometimes implement well meaning policies that make the job harder as a knee-jerk response to a complaint. Outsourcing can sometimes be a looming threat. Some back-end systems appear to no-longer have maintainers that truly understand how it is put together. IT can't always fix strange network problems despite creating issues that ultimately hurt your metrics and may result in discipline. Somewhat moderate churn for front line employees and some management.

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        1. 3.0
          Jun 5, 2019
          Financial Analyst
          Current Employee, more than 1 year
          Omaha, NE
          Recommend
          CEO Approval
          Business Outlook

          Pros

          good culture, and perks, free food, nice office

          Cons

          Upper management can be shady and keep information that is important to the employees

          1. 4.0
            May 14, 2015
            Anonymous Employee
            Former Employee
            Recommend
            CEO Approval
            Business Outlook

            Pros

            Great perks such as free coffee bar. Good benefits.

            Cons

            Continuous uncertainty about job stability due potential company break up as well as stack rank system that is biased at the upper management level.

            5
            1. 4.0
              Jul 28, 2019
              Account Executive
              Former Employee, more than 1 year
              New York, NY
              Recommend
              CEO Approval
              Business Outlook

              Pros

              Good benefits, fun corporate culture.

              Cons

              Outdated and terrible upper management

              1. 4.0
                Sep 9, 2021
                OTT Video Program Manager
                Current Employee
                New York, NY
                Recommend
                CEO Approval
                Business Outlook

                Pros

                I had an overall positive experience. I appreciate that my direct managers truly listened to my perspectives and upper management listened to theirs. I noticed continued changes based on our input.

                Cons

                It's still a mammoth of a media group and so of course there were issues with red-tape, slow-moving initiatives, and overall typical corporate culture that can sometimes make employees hesitant to state their deeper qualms with the company.

                1. 4.0
                  Nov 18, 2008
                  Senior Software Engineer
                  Current Employee
                  Bengaluru
                  Recommend
                  CEO Approval
                  Business Outlook

                  Pros

                  The best reasons to work for Yahoo I feel are: It is a fun filled environment, and most of the times, the work one does affects millions of users. The scale that Yahoo operates is amazing. A very good number of perks available. Subsidized Lunch. You get to learn something every other day. You get to meet people whom you mostly read of and never thought you could actually see. Good appreciation for work done. Teams cooperating with each other to get things done Overall, I feel, it is a very good company for a fresher, to gain more knowledge and expertise.

                  Cons

                  Proprietary technologies used heavily, leaving less scope for professional growth. Plagiarism and red tapism written all the way in upper management. The hiring process of late has been very bad, resulting in lots of under-talented people in the company, and then trying to clean them up with layoffs is a bad idea. Most of the time, you would see teams duplicating efforts, due to lack of good platforms to build things fast, secure and reliable. You also would find constant reorgs happening. Management some times doesn't feel the need to convey things to employees when needed. Hack days happen inviting ideas from employees, but wouldn't be evaluated in a proper fashion.

                  1. 3.0
                    Sep 18, 2023
                    Principal Architect
                    Former Employee
                    Dulles, VA
                    Recommend
                    CEO Approval
                    Business Outlook

                    Pros

                    The people and first line managers were great

                    Cons

                    upper management and C suite had no idea what they were doing

                    1. 4.0
                      Aug 13, 2014
                      Anonymous Contractor
                      Former Contractor, more than 3 years
                      Sunnyvale, CA
                      Recommend
                      CEO Approval
                      Business Outlook

                      Pros

                      Great perks! Also a creative environment where you can express yourself, but I hear this depends on your team. Most of the management was easy to work with. Their on boarding process was also well organized.

                      Cons

                      There were many times where goals were not clearly identified by upper management; many work hours spent spinning our wheels. There was a clear lack of communication between the channels.

                      1. 3.0
                        Apr 24, 2012
                        Software Engineer
                        Current Employee
                        Santa Clara, CA
                        Recommend
                        CEO Approval
                        Business Outlook

                        Pros

                        Good professional development. Was able to learn a lot which is definitely valuable for next job hunting.

                        Cons

                        The upper management has never been competent in recent years and right now the company is in total chaos. The company has lost the last bit of morale in the recent lay-off.

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