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After Marissa came, it's completely different and thriving, even in my non-US office

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Yahoo for 4 years
February 10, 2014
Taipei, Taiwan
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Pros

You can always have a chance to be involved in the development, design, and discussion of cutting-edge front-end technology.

Yahoo's front-end engineers are undoubtedly the best in the world.

Right now, they are also moving from PHP/C to JAVA for their back-end web services. I believe it's a very clever and correct decision.

Yahoo also provides training for employees to be familiar with JAVA technologies, such as Maven, Jersey, and so on.

There are also a bunch of documents, written by awesome people, waiting for you to discover.

Cons

There are still too many properties and legacy issues in the company. Because of some reasons, some properties are still using out-of-date technology and struggling to revamp it. Yahoo Mail is still struggling and faces several security problems. Not only mail, but also other properties; some security issues might not be very serious, but they are still waiting to be resolved.

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