Yahoo

In my experience, Yahoo! is an incredibly flexible place to work. It could be that I'm at an office remote from Sunnyvale, but from what I've seen, it is the same at HQ. I feel that Yahoo! is extremely competitive, if it doesn't exceed the competition in its compensation package. There are incredibly intelligent people working at Yahoo!, and the diverse property portfolio makes it a very interesting place to work.

I feel the most overwhelming downside of Yahoo! is the executive management's lack of direction, experience, and strategy for the company.

This ends up filtering down to the line workers by having inexperienced senior and middle management in place, resulting in a company that runs in many different directions without a clear idea of where it is going.

Come up with some goals for the company, a detailed strategy to get us there, and then communicate it down the chain of command.

Let's get rid of the platitudes and cheer-leading company meetings.

Talk to the employees like they understand business as much as they do engineering.