Great tech, terrible product leadership
Great tech, terrible product leadership
Yahoo has amazing technology and a lot of expertise. I learned a lot working at Yahoo from other really smart people. It's hard to find work at Yahoo's scale elsewhere, so this is one of the few companies where you can really learn how to scale technology or teams.
When I worked there, a lot of people had great product ideas that never made it into products.
Rather than innovating or taking risks, mostly the product managers seemed to want to copy companies that were taking risks.
Yahoo needs to start letting the talented people it has contribute meaningfully to the products and innovate, instead of letting middle management be conservative all the time because they fear doing something that didn't work.
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Was contacted by an HR and had a short 20-30 min conversation to discuss my interests. My resume was then shared with managers from the Yahoo Mail team and in about 3-4 days I received an email to schedule my interview with an engineer from Yahoo. T
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Applied online. Your typical interview process involves 3 rounds: a phone interview, followed by 2 in-house interviews. The team and work environment seem friendly and nice. However, the interview process was extremely long, and they never meet thei
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The process is formal, applied through a university career fair. I received two phone interviews from two groups at Yahoo. One group offered me an on-site opportunity. There were four interviewers for the on-site, each for approximately one hour. Mos
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Sunnyvale, California, United StatesApril 1, 2017Was contacted by an HR and had a short 20-30 min conversation to discuss my interests. My resume was then shared with managers from the Yahoo Mail team and in about 3-4 days I received an email to schedule my interview with an engineer from Yahoo. T
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Sunnyvale, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2013Applied online. Your typical interview process involves 3 rounds: a phone interview, followed by 2 in-house interviews. The team and work environment seem friendly and nice. However, the interview process was extremely long, and they never meet thei
Software Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2013The process is formal, applied through a university career fair. I received two phone interviews from two groups at Yahoo. One group offered me an on-site opportunity. There were four interviewers for the on-site, each for approximately one hour. Mos
