Yahoo has a grim future - Anonymous employee Yahoo Employee Review

1.0
May 28, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Looks good on your resume as one of the pioneers of internet technology

Cons

- the managers, worst of the kind I have ever seen. they do not care about quality of the product they deliver. the code looks like it is being done as part of high school/college project. all these managers do is to ask for updates from one meeting to the other. they add zero value to any product. - no real focus on any specific idea or product. focus keeps shifting resulting in half baked products and junk code that never gets cleaned up - absolutely insane timelines I believe all the "good" reviews here are given by new joinees. anyone who has worked for atleast half a year know things are going downhill.

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Cons

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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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