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Excellent Quality and Quantity of Work

Senior Software Engineer (IC4)
Current Employee
Has worked at Yahoo for 6 years
March 7, 2015
Burbank, California
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

The kind of work that you can get out here is superb, and the tools provided to get your work done are way beyond industry standard.

Benefits provided for employees are superb, and there will be nothing employees will be left to ask.

A company that values innovation and excellence.

Quality of technical people hired into Yahoo is superb, which gives a good morale boost to anyone who wants to work.

Cons

Middle managers are very bad and make engineers' lives miserable.

Lot of old-timers sitting at high positions who do not let transparency of employees' work reach higher-ups.

Managers are not being scrutinized enough to lead the right set of teams or engineers.

A company which takes pride in a high level of scrutiny for every engineer being hired should look hard at what kind of managers are being hired.

Too much bureaucracy to support incompetent managers and non-technical people who cannot understand the vision of the company.

Advice to Management

We need to look at how actual engineers are being treated by middle managers.

We need to look at what a manager's role is.

We need to put a clear segregation on technical and non-technical work at the team level.

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