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Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Yahoo for less than 1 year
June 11, 2008
Santa Clara, California
4.0
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Pros

The culture at Yahoo is the best. The people you work with and the independence you get to do projects are some of the reasons Y! is the place to work. Also, you can work from home anytime, any number of days, which is one great thing about Y!

Cons

30% of the time, 30% of the employees are not doing anything. I am just throwing stats blindly here. However, most of the time the projects are in the design phase, and there are so many meetings that you end up spending complete days sometimes in meetings. Also, most of these meetings have double the managers than engineers, and they don't contribute much other than to complicate things as they have to do something to justify their pay.

Advice to Management

Just focus on things we are good at and stop playing catch-up.

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