Pros: Yelp has set up best practices and an engineering culture. No blame policy.

Cons: Conservative approach to product design Systems and methods are always in flux (how to use product management tools, seating arrangements, etc.).

Pros: - Great work-life balance for engineers who are not on call. - Everyone is very nice.

Cons: - No sensical career tracks for software engineers that are more than 2 years out of college. - Engineering managers are non-technical, inexperienced, clueless, and useless. They are essentially enhanced HR people. Don't get me wrong, this is a great opportunity for engineers who are dying to stop coding and learning new things. - Compensation is not competitive. - Yelp has a renege culture; managers and execs love over-promising and then reneging. This includes company holidays canceled last minute, raises, and roadmaps. - All roadmaps are in a permanent deadlock, which is why Yelp products are not innovative. This will never change. - Product decisions are not collaborative; it is 100% PM-driven. Perfect place to work if you're just out of college, you're dying to stop coding, want to do nothing all day, and cash the check every 2 weeks.

Pros: You get to work with a ton of really smart people. The team and engineering processes are quite agile.

Cons: The company is quite young, and this can be a double-edged sword. They do hire the best out of college, but sometimes the new grads lack experience.