You get to work with (sometimes) great people, and hours are very flexible. Some great perks, like an on-campus gym. The culture is very relaxed and easygoing.
Management is just horrendous. A relaxed and easygoing culture breeds complacency and a lack of care for products. People are clueless as to how to improve the business; management themselves have very little idea of this, as demonstrated repeatedly. Negativity externally translates to threefold negativity within the company. The company is just not what it used to be anymore.
Define your business clearly and figure out how to communicate this easily and effectively to employees. Give employees clear ownership of Yahoo as a business. Yahoo does not innovate - there is no sugarcoating this. The more in denial you're in about this, the worse Yahoo will do.
The interview process was professional and included basic coding and architecture questions. The panel members had hands-on experience dealing with web-scale problems. Many questions started with small applications that had to be scaled up.
Initially, I was contacted by a recruiter via email. I had two phone rounds over a period of three weeks. After that, I was called onsite for an in-person interview. The decision came in after a week. HR was very prompt and expedited the decision p
I received an email from a Yahoo recruiter (Thanks LinkedIn!!). I scheduled a phone screening for the same week. I had a call with a nice engineer. The questions were pretty basic (C/C++, thread safety, counting the number of bits... standard interv
The interview process was professional and included basic coding and architecture questions. The panel members had hands-on experience dealing with web-scale problems. Many questions started with small applications that had to be scaled up.
Initially, I was contacted by a recruiter via email. I had two phone rounds over a period of three weeks. After that, I was called onsite for an in-person interview. The decision came in after a week. HR was very prompt and expedited the decision p
I received an email from a Yahoo recruiter (Thanks LinkedIn!!). I scheduled a phone screening for the same week. I had a call with a nice engineer. The questions were pretty basic (C/C++, thread safety, counting the number of bits... standard interv