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A Nice Place to Work If You Keep Your Head Down

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Yahoo for 6 years
June 21, 2012
Sunnyvale, California
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Great benefits and culture.

Pros for some people: This is one company where you can get rewarded and promoted for failed projects.

Cons

Poor Management - investing in products that have no ROI or revenue gain, and a lack of direction for the teams. Decisions tend to be made more for personal gain than what is best for the company.

Too many academics, and few think out of the box or care about the business of making money. Lots of inventions and ideas but no ROI. It's sad to say this: a billion-dollar company that doesn't know how to develop software. Lots of talk about technology but none on monetizing them.

Lots of failed projects. A failed project is one that does not work better than the previous versions, has no additional ROI, users don't like it, and is not stable.

Advice to Management

Why? They don't listen or understand. We need smarter and braver management.

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