On the spiral of decline - Senior Software Engineer Yahoo Employee Review

2.0
Nov 21, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

work life balance a wide variety of products and platform services give opportunities to learn and grow your career

Cons

compensation is not good for junior and entry level management lacks the vision and execution too many incompetent upper level architects, directors and VPs low level engineers and roles are under paid while high level positions get good compensation for doing little

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Relatively easy to get things done for a company with such a long history. Certainly not "start up" like, but processes like resource allocation have less overhead than working at a company like Google. Pay was pretty good for the midwest. I hear they are currently pretty open to remote work. It's also not the hardest place to work.

Cons

Opportunities are limited in software engineering. Since Apollo took over, SE was viewed mostly under the lens of "what is the least we can invest here to get the job done". There used to be a really good office in Champaign with lots of very talented software engineers put together. That's gone now.

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