Potential Greatness - Software Engineer Yahoo Employee Review

3.0
Jun 16, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Management really takes care of the employee base. It's a great place to work. 500 million people use the products we develop, which is cool.

Cons

Microsoft fiasco. Google obsession. Lack of strategy to break out of the cycle. As an engineer, it seems like projects could move faster. We get bogged down in process. Startups with far fewer resources beat us to the punch all the time. Sometimes I'd like to just launch the darn thing and not be so careful.

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5.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

Great place to work at

Cons

Sometimes not a great place to work at

4.0
Mar 27, 2026
Recommend
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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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