Yahoo! A good place to work, but management needs improvement!!
Yahoo! A good place to work, but management needs improvement!!
The work environment is the best and good for innovation and work.
Work environment is kept open, and the management takes care to be open and of a joyful nature. The career opportunity in Yahoo! is tremendous, if we look at the way we are growing in certain areas. This develops a good environment, as personal growth is also given time for the individual.
Compensation and perks are also great. We have facilities like pick and drop from home and also a work-from-home culture, which lets us do our personal work if required.
Recognition in the form of awards is also a good way to check the progress of the person. Top management recognizes you for good work done when it does proliferate up from the leads and the manager.
Communication between the teams and a rising insecurity within the members about what will happen.
The environment induces a feeling of well-being and gives us time to innovate and relax. The only problem is that due to the release cycles being too short and not enough staff trained to keep up, it tends to become a place where innovation is stifled.
Only some whose projects are not active make the innovation, while the rest of the people are given away to obscurity. This practice makes people feel that they are not actually working on what they wish to and makes them dull.
Instead of being productive, they start to become unproductive in the short run itself.
Awards have started getting too politically motivated and go to those who know how to market themselves, not to the exact deserving candidates.
Due to the influx required to fill places, we have started lowering the standards at which we choose candidates. This should not be done anytime, as it will start getting more undeserving candidates who are more interested in the perks rather than the work.
Please be more communicative.
Also, try to build an environment of sharing within the teams, instead of keeping things hidden from one team to the next. Duplication and waste of time are the only things that ensue from this.
Also, keep the rewards and compensation system transparent so that there is no resentment among the engineers as to why they were not deserving of the same.
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It was a pretty long process. It started with the recruiter talking to me about the role and my expectations, followed by telephone and in-person interviews. The entire process took about five weeks, but I was kept updated throughout. The telephon
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Interviews were tough. Most questions focused on algorithms; it seems they were not interested in other areas. The worst part is the recruitment team's absolute shabbiness. There has been no feedback for over 15 days.
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Technical Lead
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJune 1, 2010It was a pretty long process. It started with the recruiter talking to me about the role and my expectations, followed by telephone and in-person interviews. The entire process took about five weeks, but I was kept updated throughout. The telephon
Software Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaAugust 1, 2010Interviews were tough. Most questions focused on algorithms; it seems they were not interested in other areas. The worst part is the recruitment team's absolute shabbiness. There has been no feedback for over 15 days.
SRE
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaFebruary 8, 2016Interview was good, had to clear almost 4 rounds, was good and interacting. They asked the basic stuffs which you know, no higher end things. Need to answer with flow diagrams as well.
