Yahoo Principal Software Development Engineer reviews

4.0

83% would recommend to a friend

(97 total reviews)
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Jim Lanzone

67% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Principal Software Development Engineer employees have rated Yahoo with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 97 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Yahoo is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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97 reviews
4.0
Aug 16, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Some cutting edge work, a good library, Good perks and a decent work-life balance. Immense learning opportunities and excellent knowledge sharing

Cons

4 CEOs is less than a year No clarity of approach or direction at the middle management level Higher attrition rate - poaching by rivals

3.0
Jun 24, 2012

A company with no direction

Recommend
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Pros

Yahoo hires top quality, the products and science is pretty good.

Cons

The company has no direction and it is a dying company. The projects gets changes from india to sunnyvale so often. There is no sense of ownership. Some of the managers in yahoo so not good with people management.

3.0
May 19, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation is very good. There are some extremely good engineers working at Yahoo. It can be fun, but it isn't always. In general I have loved working at Yahoo. Just not sure what I think of it lately. I'll have to see how Ross works out as CEO. At least he's human and a reasonable on at that.

Cons

Management is in constant turmoil. Promotions to Architect are very difficult to come by - it's more like an old boys club. You depened on a lot of other teams doing their part for you to be able to ship. Some of those teams are very poorly staffed and/or managed. Those teams always seem to miss their dates and their code quality is poor. There needs to be more accountability in the orginization.

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