Pros: Great work-life balance. Generous benefits (on par with other Bay Area tech companies). Strong engineering culture. Engineering and recruiting actively care about improving diversity and creating an atmosphere where everybody is welcome. Yelp’s public reputation may be iffy, but most of the people who work there are amazing. The majority of engineers are nice, helpful people. Jeremy Stoppelman seems like a truly good person who has the best intentions for the company and who wants to put good things back into the world. The weird part of working for Yelp was balancing the public’s perception with my own experience, since the two tended to clash.

Cons: It's easy to get stuck on projects that are doomed for failure. Product management is very homogenous, and that branch of the org's diversity is extremely weak. More than a few bullies have found a comfortable place in the upper reaches of Product. It definitely has an old boy's club feel. No feedback structures exist between engineers and product management. As an engineer, 80% of my direction on projects came straight from Product, but any feedback I had, positive or negative, had to be relayed through my engineering manager. HR could be more receptive to benefits changes that the org cares about.

Pros: Friday lunches catered, a great working environment, strong team members, high mobility within the company, and low churn.

Cons: Poor 401k matching, middle-of-the-road benefits and compensation, restrictive remote working policies. On-call work breaks into work-life balance (should have Mondays or Fridays off during on-call rotation).

Pros: Great environment. Amazing people. Everyone there is willing to help you get on your feet and start coding. They all come off as friendly and helpful, and you fit in in no time. A lot of the time, you will either be on IRC chatting with fellow coworkers about life, or setting up some after-work activity. The environment is laid back, and the only real motivating factor was seeing how much your fellow co-worker did the previous day, since there weren't really any set deadlines to get a project done.

Cons: Had a long commute, but other than that, everything was incredible. No complaints.