Yahoo

• Good Health Plan
• Free Lattes, at least
• You learn scaleability by serving one of the most crowded user bases after Google and Facebook.

If you work at Yahoo, you should have the nerves to handle never-ending reorganizations, layoffs, and CEO searches ever since 2008.

Since then, massive reorgs took place every other year: 2008, 2010, and 2012, along with countless smaller-scale reorgs that went unnoticed by the media.

After every reorg and thousands laid off, Yahoo starts hiring aggressively just a couple of months later to fill the very same racks. So, Yahoo quickly ends up with the same headcount before the reorg started.

Note for Immigrants: If you are an immigrant, the outlook is even worse. Yahoo cannot apply for green cards since it's constantly laying off people. Even if you were lucky to get your labor application while things were quiet, your application will be denied as soon as Yahoo does a new reorg, which it always does!

CEOs and upper management have no clue about reorgs, so they hire Boston Consultancy Group to tell them what to do. Do you imagine any hot internet companies like Facebook, Apple, or Google ever go and ask management consultancies what to do?

Yahoo has a simple answer to most difficult problems: ship it to India! If product X, Y, Z (shopping, travel, messenger, search, advertising) cannot compete with Google, FB, et al., the solution is always to ship those products to India, expecting the amazing talent of India to thrive those products. Google, Apple, and Facebook must be stupid not to do it this way!

From a compensation standpoint, RSUs and stock options are like a joke; even principal engineers are given RSUs worth peanuts. Most engineers, especially those who joined pre-2010, have options drowned way underwater.

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Stability, focus. Please don't change plans every other day. Have a vision, for God's sake, and stick with it.