Pros: Great benefits, good location, good teamwork.

Cons: Salary may raise a little bit.

Pros: - People are friendly. - Salary and stocks are great if you work remotely in a location that has a lower cost of living. - Remote first.

Cons: They do silent layoffs that are not upfront or honest at all, sacrificing their employees' mental health to avoid disclosing to the world that they are actually doing layoffs. To do the silent layoff, they will put you on a "coaching plan," which is really just a PIP where it doesn’t matter if you do everything that they asked and more. They will find reasons and skew things to create a paper trail on why you will be being let go, setting employees up for failure and severe hits to mental health where no matter what you do, you are never good enough. Long-time Yelp managers can be great, but external hire managers, in my experience, were terrible.

Pros: I came to Yelp right out of college and learned a ton. I worked closely with engineers who each had varying degrees of experience, but the vast majority were very thoughtful and willing to take time to chat about whatever problem/design I wanted feedback on.

Cons: The biggest con was that it didn't feel like Yelp as a company actually helps restaurants. Negative reviews can really tank a business, and people give these away like candy for arbitrary reasons. It didn't feel great about what I was contributing toward. * Hostility from teams which acted as gatekeepers at Yelp (for example, the Database Reliability Team). Lots of rules pinned in their Slack channels describing how to interact with them, and you get roasted or ignored if you don't follow them. * Many team reorganizations. * Cross-team collaboration was chaos.