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 23, 2010
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Pros

The environment is very nice. Lots of smart people. The regular tech talk is very educational.

Cons

Management is out of touch. Wasted significant opportunity. Ego was also a significant problem. Senior executives misbehave with no consequence. Wrong people are in position of power. There is a lot of waste.

2.0
Jun 2, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits Opportunity to work on well known products Still lots of cool projects, even if search backend is going to Microsoft

Cons

Steadily becoming a less technical company Design by committee It takes management forever to make a decision. People are overly afraid to make a mistake. Company is becoming more political

3.0
Nov 23, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work on the most trafficked websites in the internet. The company uses and contributes to a lot of open source projects, which allows you to learn and be experts on these. You get to work with some interesting and fun people. The company is not just about building portal websites, there are a lot of interesting and challenging projects, mostly involves scaling of some sort. Some groups are practical and allows for innovation from within. The company encourages internal hacks, sponsoring hack day events internally and externally.

Cons

Poor management decision making. Always want to play catch-up, rather than innovate. Old timers tend to be undervalued and under-compensated. Upper management tend to bring in external hires rather than promote from within. Performance follows the 80-20 rule, i.e. most projects are heavily dependent on 20% of the staff. Yet, management tend to split bonuses across the entire team rather than reward the 20 more.

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