Yahoo Principal Software Development Engineer reviews

Promotion and hiring inside Yahoo! is now more or less a question of knowing someone, not of being the best at your field. Hopefully, Marissa will address this. Most work is maintenance while developers and engineers wait for the next round of management changes, starting something new is guaranteed to being shut down as soon as the next reorg happens. Politicking, backstabbing, no directorial and above direction, constant goalpost changing, cronyism.

1-You'll be expecting next Layoffs all the time. 2-Too many managers, 50% 3-Too many changes in the name of strategy but no body is sure if they'll survive next layoff 4-Difficult to change team if you really want to get there in fair way, if you have connects then it works. 5-You'll Old technology new stuff are never meant for yahoo. 6-It's a sinking ship. Layoffs are next.