Pros: Great place to work, smart coworkers, free food, and high pay. Lots of fun projects.

Cons: Not really. Probably not many opportunities for promotion.

Pros: Colleagues at the Champaign site are both skilled and enjoyable to work with. There is little drama and politics. They offer good work-life balance. The pay and perks are good for the region, including free lunch. The office is bright and modern, with sitting and standing desks.

Cons: Long-term prospects of the company as a whole seem uncertain. Many projects at Yahoo Champaign are back-end work to maximize company revenue, which isn't for everyone. There is not much opportunity for advancement.

Pros: You get to work with very smart sons and daughters of midwestern farmers. You get to work for the hottest CEO out of all companies that exist. The whole site is about 150 people, so people know each other and are very friendly. Hiring is ongoing. Family oriented. Good work/life balance. Just not much to do even after you get off work. A lot of workers have been around the area for a long time, the average age is high. There are a few who are older than Gandalf and do some magic on the computer. Handle Yahoo's all advertising traffic; big, big, big data. Small college town surrounded by cornfields if that's what you're looking for. (This could be a con.) But the cost of living is much lower than in CA.

Cons: - There won't be a lot of opportunities to advance. This may change since they are building a new and bigger building to cope with many new hires coming in, which means they are going to need more manager-level positions. - The main purpose of the site is to maintain the existing data pipeline. All the exciting things happen at Sunnyvale. Once people at Sunnyvale are done playing with new technology, they dump it to Champaign if it's something Yahoo! wants to maintain. You have to fix and maintain lousy second-drafts 90% of the time. Managers are aware of this and try to bring something exciting to the site.