Pros
- Smart, attractive and interesting coworkers - Free beer, beverages and basic food (bagels, cereal, sandwich-making materials, frozen burritos) - Extremely modern, casual and young work environment - Open bar at company parties when the sales org hits/exceeds quota/target - Good professional learning experience (particularly if you're interested in a career in sales) - Very basic introduction to online advertising - Adequate compensation if you're the type of person who can exceed sales quotas every single month (most employees at Yelp don't)
Cons
- New sales classes of 20-40 people come in every 2 months, leading to a feeling of expendability and lack of importance (it's demoralizing celebrating new employees who do the exact same job that you do except better, even though you've been on the job for 6+ months and they've been on for 3 weeks) - Very unfulfilling - hard to feel like you're making a positive difference for the majority of your clients who sign up - Comp plan very poor - lack of incentives to do well, since you can only start earning commission after you've been at the company for a few months. Be prepared to continue living like a poor college student for the first 9 months (unless you're a sales rockstar) - Lack of transparency about product updates. Yelp gave employees sneak peeks into new products while simultaneously releasing new ones without telling the sales org, making it very unprofessional when a client brings up these new products and we have no idea what they're talking about - Even though the company is expanding, opportunities for advancement are limited - most people will have to relocate to Phoenix office if they want a promotion. - "Drink the kool-aid" kind of environment. It feels like the higher-ups in management implicitly discourage employees from questioning specific "why" or "how" details about the advertising product, and most employees don't believe in its viability anymore after 6+ months. - Not a great place to stay unless you want a career in sales. Even then, other sales jobs offer better career growth and compensation than Yelp does. Most people only stay at Yelp long-term because of the pros listed above. - Doesn't seem like the CEO has any idea of who is involved in the sales org or what the sales org does