Yahoo Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.8

63% would recommend to a friend

(245 total reviews)
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Jim Lanzone

36% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Yahoo with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 245 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Yahoo is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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245 reviews
5.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people you work with and the amazing opportunities available which wouldn't be available at most other companies.

Cons

With Yahoo! getting big, people get pigeon holed into specific roles even when you are clearly qualified to work on a variety of things. This clearly hampers the motivation.

2.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to learn how to do Internet things. It is really great to work on something with potential to influent hundred of millions Internet users. And there are many workaholic guys and really smart guys working here. You can find many great technology around here.

Cons

Yahoo is a big company operated like hundreds of small startups. However, it doesn't have the startup efficiency but with startup workload and big company's politics. The managers I met seem tried to manage the team like a startup but without a startup manager's technical skill and also without a traditional manager's people management skill. So many layer of management and the people involved in a project are so many and hard to get project going smoothly. Also, poor documentation and it is hard to get know what in a document is in production as well as valid for your situation. And the most important thing for people work here smoothly and favorably is social and politics. So many temp project and incomplete project around and so many changes for project.

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