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Backend SE @ Flickr

Software Engineer, Backend
Current Employee
Has worked at Yahoo for 2 years
January 20, 2015
San Francisco, California
5.0
RecommendsPositive Outlook
Pros
  • Very smart people; you can learn a lot.
  • Strongly motivated team that is making an impact on the web.
  • Opportunities to move into various roles with various levels of expertise.
  • Incredible opportunities to work with lots of data and the most cutting-edge technologies in this area.
  • For Flickr in particular, an incredible culture of very self-driven, highly intelligent, and socially able people.
  • A renaissance is currently happening across the entire organization.
  • Open culture.
Cons
  • Dealing with some of the older platforms can be tedious and fall short of the cutting edge.
  • Performance reviews are rigid and unfairly bucket employees.
Advice to Management

You're doing great. The one thing I would pick on is the implementation of performance reviews. The feedback itself is great; however, I don't think the ranking is helping or necessary, and in the worst case, it is discouraging. The best motivation is producing quality work, not getting "good grades".

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