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Great benefits, but not a great working experience

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Yahoo for 4 years
December 1, 2014
Sunnyvale, California
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Great benefits such as free food and a free smartphone/plan. I would recommend this to friends solely on the benefits alone.

Cons

Stack ranking hurts morale.

Engineering at L2/L3 level lacks innovation and focuses on ROI in terms of dollars.

Tech leaders lack innovation.

A weak product management team does not work well with the sales team to create or update products that make more money.

Engineering management dictates product development, wasting resources on rewrites and tech updates that yield no ROI. Worse, they require dropping focus on making the current product better (fixing bugs and adding new features).

So, every couple of years, we have new products that have no new ROI features but with new bugs, while existing software continues to be barely usable. The cycle starts again and again.

Advice to Management

Stop wasting resources solely on tech updates and rewrites.

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