Yahoo Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Yahoo full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Lots of opportunities and interesting projects to work on. Plenty of smart people to work with and learn from.

Cons – Complicated management structure, lack of accountability when things go wrong or need fixing.

Advice to Senior Management – Flatten the org and delegate more responsibility as well as work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Yahoo full-time for more than a year

Pros – Interesting projects and products to work on

Cons – Focus is more on engineering than design and UX

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Yahoo

Pros – Smart engineers
Fun people to work with
Lively and happy atmosphere
Very good work/life balance
Good use of (some) open source code and tools
Good benefits for full time employees

Cons – No clear direction for engineering. Not able to take engineering risks to innovate
Pressure to launch with out much thought on maintenance
Strong "not invented here" pressure against non-yahoo code

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Yahoo

Pros – * It's a great atmosphere to work in
* Surrounded by fun, young and friendly colleagues
* Fantastic work/life balance. Plenty of people ride their bikes to work and use lunch breaks to go for run/swim.

Cons – * Reshuffles of the internal organisation management structure every few years
* Heavily focused on using technology to communicate, most people will instant message each other rather than talk/call

Advice to Senior Management – Take a more strategic approach to next steps and new initiatives. Especially when it comes to internal company organization and structure.

Current Employee – been working at Yahoo full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great momentum and atmosphere: underdogs getting their mojo back!
Great benefits and perks
Transparent communication and positive culture
Amazing new things happening every day: new products, new benefits!

Cons – Some old-time employees resist change and carry on old habits
By the same token, some people might not be up to the challenge of revitalizing the company
Slow to adapt salaries to the market

Advice to Senior Management – Embrace the radical shift pushed by our CEO

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Yahoo full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Nice perks, when I started they had great parties and awesome summer company outings. That all stopped towards the end of 2009 into 2010 to save money. Great bunch of people to work with and easy access to tools for personal and professional growth.

Cons – Poor communication with employees. It took forever to get answers because everyone was in a meeting all the time. How do you get work done if everyone is in a meeting? Then to cut costs they started sending jobs overseas. It was hard to watch.

Advice to Senior Management – Better communication with employees. Everyone is so guarded that things don't get done in a timely manner. Stop sending jobs out of the country. People right here need to work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Yahoo

Pros – considered pretty good company overall

Cons – need long term for coming back

Former Employee – worked at Yahoo full-time for more than a year

Pros – great culture and colorful ambiance make it a very cool place to work

Cons – Things can be too easy at times and the learning can get limited

Advice to Senior Management – innovate new products and services

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Yahoo full-time

Pros – Significant change, renewed innovation, amazing co-workers/culture, great salary/benefits

Cons – Still a lot of middle/sr mgmt hanging on that should be gone. Not much job growth happening in LA.

Advice to Senior Management – Take the YEES results seriously on an individual basis, weed out poor management based on these. The seem ignored in that regard. Provide a better channel to report management issues. The public forums/voting only work for some things.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Yahoo

Pros – Great Culture and Great People

Cons – No cons. Its a great company to work

Advice to Senior Management – Keep Going

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company