Pros
Yelp creates a very very unique culture. While most of your coworkers are new grads, they keep it up beat and exciting for those who are new to the tech scene. i met some of the greatest people in my professional career here.
Cons
While the gig seems exciting for new blood - It absolutely is not. Please to those that are seriously considering working here - Understand, you are a number, you will be trained to make 80+ dials a day, you are working in an extremely intimidating, political system that will eat you alive. The core goal for Yelp is to hire excessive amounts of employees to find the few diamonds in the rough. No matter what they tell you, understand that you will be given a horrible territory, and selling a product that is extremely faulty and cost a lot of money. Your morale will slowly default, and you will notice many sleepless nights, stressing to hit very unreasonable quotas. Your upper peers are at best some of the most condescending colleagues you will ever work with. It's their job before yours and they will beat you to the ground if they are not getting what they want. I exceeded numbers far higher than 75% of the office in Chicago and kept to myself, meaning I didn't brown nose. This is where I made a mistake, Although I had the numbers - I was coming into an office that hunted for attention and if they didn't get it you were off the list. Where I eventually ended up. I hate to scare you from an opportunity but I want to be very honest of what this company does and how you will be treated. There have been several cases of sexual harassment and discrimination within the Chicago Office as well as heavy drug usage within the heads that run it. While HR is very understanding of the employees that work here - they side the people that run it. You will be a lost cause.