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Go Yahoo! We can do it, but we need change

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Yahoo for less than 1 year
June 23, 2008
Santa Clara, California
3.0
RecommendsApproves of CEO
Pros

Great products and amazing engineers. It's a great place to learn and have fun at the same time. You will meet some of the best engineers and legends in their own right.

Cons

Highly bureaucratic, with more Product Managers and EVPs and VPs than engineers. I would say it has more VPs/EVPs than Cisco, Sun, or IBM. The company is driven by non-tech people, to the frustration of many engineers who actually innovate and power the company. It's really sad.

Advice to Management

Stop politics, start working. Or at least let us work.

Respect engineers and individual contributors.

Focus, focus, focus. Be a tech company. Be bold. Be cutting-edge.

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