Yahoo

Great work environment, especially in regards to work-life balance.

Great teams with talented and smart people.

Good benefits (Gym, Cheap Food, Health, Dental, 401k 1.5 match) and compensation inline with the market and sometimes higher than the average.

Working on some of the biggest products on the internet with hundreds of millions of users.

Working on high-scale and high-performance challenges.

Lots of learning opportunities when you have a good coach/manager.

• It is a slow company; everything takes forever to happen.
• Old tools and platforms that are never finished.
• Bureaucracy is everywhere; nothing is simple to fix or to do.
• Lack of resource planning: layoffs followed by a huge number of hires.
• The vision is not challenging or bold enough.
• Some people are just tired, and there is a big attitude problem.
• Lack of focus, doing too much and spread too thin.
• Discipline-driven orgs (Design, Engineering, Product, Marketing); it's very difficult to get alignment and execute on this.

Focus resources on bold bets, get rid of non-growing businesses or make them as cost-effective as possible, and invest in disruptive/high-growth opportunities.

Create multi-functional, product-focused teams, not discipline groups. You end up with discipline silos that don't care much about the product they are building and more about their specific roles. This environment creates little connection between people and the products they work on.

Invest in modernizing tools and fix the platforms. Make the internal platforms compete with external services like Amazon and others. Nothing like competition to shake things up.

Focus on continuous delivery, small and incremental development.