Stay away if you can - Software Engineer Yahoo Employee Review

2.0
Jan 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Some interesting work given the company's age and scale. - Total compensation is good, but is devalued by bad work-life balance.

Cons

- Terrible work life balance. Some people work 7 days a week regularly. - Toxic work environments. Some engineers with long tenure at the company will berate, haze, and create toxic work environments. - On call schedules are high burn out risk. You will be regularly woken up at 3am. There is reduction in normal responsibilities or increase in compensation or time off during on-call. You are expected to deliver as normal and wake up at 3am several nights a week. - Tools are being introduced to tie employee performance and promotions to Git metrics. - "Anonymous" feedback surveys are not very anonymous.

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5.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

Great place to work at

Cons

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4.0
Mar 27, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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