Yahoo reviews

4.0

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,926 total reviews)
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Jim Lanzone

70% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Yahoo has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,926 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Yahoo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Mar 5, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Huge opportunity to work on many aspects of the business if you are good at your job.

Cons

-The mantra of the company now is that if you aren't adaptable after 3 years of constant change, this might not be the right culture for you. -Due to the lack of resources and unclear headcount strategy for non-revenue producing organizations, re-org's are frequent and processes are nearly impossible to manage. -CEO and Top Management have complete ADD. No clear vision of what Yahoo brings to the market or where the business is going so priorities are constantly in flux. If you work in Talent Acquisition, you are blamed constantly because the businesses you support have no clear direction from their leadership about headcount. -The CEO and Leadership have taken the stance that we need to delight our advertisers instead of create products that are compelling that will go viral. Nobody uses products because of the beautiful advertisements they'll engage with...this is an awful strategy and we're seeing the results of it. -CEO has focused on paying engineering top dollar while sucking the rest of the company bone dry. -Company has lost it's idea of reality on how to attract and retain talent. -Poor work life balance.

2.0
Jan 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart, fun people abound. Free food is great. Benefits are pretty awesome.

Cons

Micromanagement is unbearable. Innovation is completely stifled by process and QPR system. Almost zero focus exists across the board and strategies change monthly. Reorgs happen like clockwork every 6-8 months. CEO is way too involved in day-to-day. Resources are regularly shifted into really terrible projects that are abandoned a year later.

2.0
Dec 25, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Good Compensation and benefits -Family friendly events

Cons

1.The fundamental work culture of the company has deteriorated a lot because of QPR(Quarterly Performance Review) process which forced employees to be stack ranked in various buckets. The bottom most in bucket are forced to leave every quarter in form of a silent lay offs with no compensation or word of thanks even if you have been with company for long and performed well. The QPR process is highly broken and misused and has cause a lot of resentment and bitterness among the employees . 2.Yahoo still has twice the amount of workforce it needs. A massive layoff is needed to clean out excess folks, but QPR is not the answer. 3.The middle managers are treated like dirt and can be converted to Individual contributor any time independent of performance. Stay away if you are a manager. 4.Overall, a 'Use and Throw' attitude exists starting from CEO and prevalent among the upper management. If they don't need you irrespective of how long you have been with the company or how good a performer you are you will be just thrown out.

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