The company does well and has huge reach. They've fully embraced remote work, so it's a great company for experienced engineers who want to maintain balance with family life. I almost never work nights and weekends, and nobody expects me to. Lots of very smart, friendly people. I like the current leaders.
Yahoo has its legacy business that pays the rent, so there aren't the shiny new products that seem like they'd be fun to work on, like self-driving cars or AI products.
Because it has been eclipsed by bigger tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, it doesn't get much attention or credit as a tech company from the media.
That makes it harder to attract talent.
It appears I'm paid less than I could be, especially without the stock options of a public company.
Figure out how to make remote work better and get people together more.
They initially said they were going to give me an offer. A week later, the recruiter called back and said the team was going in a different direction. It really left a poor impression of Yahoo. Some things may have been out of their hands, as Yahoo
The phone screen interview process can be rated as medium difficulty. The interview went smoothly. The interviewer was friendly and helped in solving the coding problem. It was a LeetCode medium problem.
Technical interview with coding questions. Topics include: * Data structures * Algorithms * Distributed systems * Scalability * Puzzles and brain teasers. Specific algorithm types such as dynamic programming and greedy algorithms are als
They initially said they were going to give me an offer. A week later, the recruiter called back and said the team was going in a different direction. It really left a poor impression of Yahoo. Some things may have been out of their hands, as Yahoo
The phone screen interview process can be rated as medium difficulty. The interview went smoothly. The interviewer was friendly and helped in solving the coding problem. It was a LeetCode medium problem.
Technical interview with coding questions. Topics include: * Data structures * Algorithms * Distributed systems * Scalability * Puzzles and brain teasers. Specific algorithm types such as dynamic programming and greedy algorithms are als