Great company to work for but lack of precision from EVPs during transition time - Software Engineer Yahoo Employee Review

5.0
Jul 26, 2008
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Pros

Yahoo! is a bleeding edge Internet company serving millions of users everyday with content. Yet, working there is still far from a very heavy media company structure and technology is very well used to make everyone's job as challenging as in a small new startup. Overall, the spirit of the company is amazing and working there is a lot of fun even given the size.

Cons

The employer brand is trashed these days and the misconception by many that Yahoo! only is a search engine often puts a lot of unnecessary pressure and PR decisions on some other products

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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
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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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