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Great Engineers - Poor Management

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Yahoo for less than 1 year
March 25, 2011
4.0
Doesn't RecommendNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  • You can learn a lot
  • Challenging tasks
  • Smart people around
Cons
  • Too much politics.
  • No one, especially in management, wants to take risks.
Advice to Management

Fails are punished quickly, but the only way to avoid failing is to do nothing.

Additionally, simple tasks have too many stakeholders.

Listen more to engineers who base decisions on facts.

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