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: Fully remote and confident they will not revert that policy. Nice social events and free snacks in the office.

Cons: On-call is absolutely horrible. In your on-call week, you will get pages at 2-3 AM and at midnight, and you're expected to ASAP get up and fix it. This wouldn't be too bad if the code wasn't a horrible mess, and incidents and pages happen at least 4 times a day (mostly at midnight or outside work hours). The compensation for pages is just that any time worked outside hours, you can redeem back in work hours, i.e., one hour outside work, one hour back in work. This is NOT equivalent and is a terrible deal compared to other companies in the industry that give generous compensation for on-call (and they probably rarely have midnight pages, if at all, from what I've researched). There is no technical growth. It is simple fixing the code and rarely product features. It feels more like a support engineer role than a software engineer role. Salary is not market standard. Stock doesn't rise, so no point in RSU; better to just get far more money. In the UK, there are fewer other jobs with skills that Yelp uses. No career progression. Don't fall for their promises of their leveling framework; it is simply to keep paying you less for as long as they can. Terrible business practices. Ask any person who opens a business at Yelp; very, very bad PR, and I don't see this company surviving the next few years.

Pros: - Good benefits. - It is a work-from-home environment.

Cons: They perform silent layoffs and are not honest about the whole situation. Before they lay you off, they make your life a living hell. This happened to a lot of people I know. Very bad management. If you are lucky, you can be in a good team with a good manager. However, some teams have terrible managers without any experience.