Yahoo

I have worked here as an intern and am now working full-time, for about 8 months.

Yahoo is one of the few companies that will surprise you once you join it.

• Fantastic work culture
• Some crazy smart folks doing cutting-edge stuff
• One of the best places to work for if interested in large-scale distributed computing, bleeding-edge frontend engineering, or product marketing.
• Beautiful campus at their Sunnyvale HQ.
• The BEST coffee bar I can visit in the Bay Area (guess what – it's free!)
• Excellent cafeteria (at Sunnyvale HQ)
• Young, vibrant, and fresh feel overall on the campus
• Excellent office interiors!
• Excellent computing infrastructure (they've given me a brand-new 15-inch MacBook Pro, a huge monitor, and an Apple keyboard)

Clearly one of the best places to work for in Silicon Valley.

Very few as such.

• Need significant improvement in PR, product marketing, and connecting well with their user base.
• Need to be relevant again for the internet power users.

CEO and SVPs should drive execution of product strategies at a much faster rate than it is currently. The competition is moving much faster than Yahoo.