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Work at Yahoo!

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Yahoo for less than 1 year
April 24, 2008
Santa Clara, California
5.0
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Pros

At Yahoo!, you get to work on very interesting properties and use and learn the best practices for web development.

For the entire web development stack, Yahoo has some technological innovation.

It's contributed numerous browser extensions to Firefox. It provides one of the best JavaScript platforms. PHP internals are developed at Yahoo. Apache HTTP is a major investment by Yahoo.

Much of the technology developed in-house at Yahoo gets a chance to go outside.

Not to mention the great properties like Flickr and Delicious.

Cons

Limited Vacation Time.

Google Envy.

Advice to Management

Match or beat Google in employee perks.

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