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Great place to work. Good perks. Sometimes lacking direction

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Yahoo for less than 1 year
February 28, 2010
Santa Clara, California
4.0
RecommendsApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Good salary
  • Good perks
  • Friendly and intelligent coworkers
  • Very open, executives very approachable and ready to listen
Cons
  • Low morale in search and advertising groups.
  • Sometimes senior management lacks in providing direction.
  • Too many reorganizations.
Advice to Management

Yahoo can still get its glory back, but please set up the environment which is conducive. Too many reorgs cause a lot of confusion between engineers and PMs working on projects.

Encourage the culture to take risks. We seem to have lost it over the last couple of years.

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