Yahoo Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"I worked for Yahoo for about 6 years, and absolutely loved it there. I was let go in a round of layoffs, or I would still be there. It's not perfect - nowhere ever is - but the benefits far supersede any complaints."

"Yahoo is a great place to work now with the new CEO in place. The new direction of the company along with having right tools to get your job done is awesome."

What do you like about working at Yahoo?

"The culture was great and the facilities had everything you could imagine."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Do your research on the division your interviewing with. If your division is not mission critical you'll be the first in line for layoffs in this crazy economy."

What don't you like about working at Yahoo?

"The layoffs are almost guaranteed if the stock drops or there's a bump in the economy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Overall my manager was great. Very fact driven individuals and the politics were subdued."

"I worked for Yahoo Inc 2007 – 2014. I found the company to treat its employees very well. Yahoo Inc. is an American multinational Internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California."

What do you like about working at Yahoo?

"It's the best industry education you can get. Web services, search and digital advertising."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you get an offer, take it. You will learn a huge amount in a short period of time."

What don't you like about working at Yahoo?

"It's so diverse that sometimes there isn't enough focus and it's hard to get things done."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Put 10-20% of the company aside to innovate without boundaries."

"I have worked for Yahoo! since last 3 years and the best professional experiences I share are here."

"I've worked for Yahoo for 3.5 years. It's a pretty good work environment, but poorly managed."

What do you like about working at Yahoo?

"Yahoo provided opportunities to learn and move up within the company quickly. In under 2 years I was promoted twice (to leadership positions). I was also able to help promote change and lead in a cross-functional leadership role."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Show that you can help promote change, lead and be dedicated to your beliefs."

What don't you like about working at Yahoo?

"One of the difficult situations at Yahoo was the lack of innovation at the upper management level and the multiple re-organizations."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Innovate! And think outside the box. Yahoo needs to be a leader, and not following trends set by other companies."

"Everything is great, especially free food."

"I have no comments at this time."

What do you like about working at Yahoo?

"Yahoo! provides so many opportunties for me to grow in managing projects. The matrix environment allowed me to work globally while building working relationships with managers in advertising, operations and engineering that carry through on other assignments at Y!"

What don't you like about working at Yahoo?

"I do believe that communication to employees can has improved. This was the one thing the company worked on very hard."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management can keep staff aware of upcoming changes. Change is hard for teams and regrouping presents different challenges."

"9 years of high-availability, scalable architecture at Yahoo."

What do you like about working at Yahoo?

"Amazing benefits, great co-workers, outstanding immediate management, massive infrastructure to play with - lots of buttons to press and knobs to turn, to put it bluntly."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Positive attitude, play well with others, love what you do, have passion and drive."

What don't you like about working at Yahoo?

"Lack of upper management vision, less qualified people sticking around due to a 4 year stock option vesting period. Using open source technology that has been heavily modified and is now years out of date."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to the teams and managers that produce RESULTS, not the teams that *appear* to produce results."

"Yahoo is a great technology company to work for."