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Personal opinion of Yahoo!

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Yahoo for less than 1 year
September 7, 2009
Santa Clara, California
4.0
RecommendsDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Well-known brand with a strong impact on mainstream media. Extremely smart engineering team, and very ethnically diverse. Higher than average compensation.

Cons

Yahoo! is often spoken of in the shadow of Google, even though Yahoo! is a prime internet portal. Also, management is not always transparent, for example, with the recent Microsoft-Yahoo deal.

Advice to Management

Talk to your soldiers: i.e., the engineers, before making big-time mergers or deals. It is insufficient to simply loop in upper management.

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