Not a great place to work if you need job stability - Anonymous employee Yahoo Employee Review

2.0
Dec 25, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Good Compensation and benefits -Family friendly events

Cons

1.The fundamental work culture of the company has deteriorated a lot because of QPR(Quarterly Performance Review) process which forced employees to be stack ranked in various buckets. The bottom most in bucket are forced to leave every quarter in form of a silent lay offs with no compensation or word of thanks even if you have been with company for long and performed well. The QPR process is highly broken and misused and has cause a lot of resentment and bitterness among the employees . 2.Yahoo still has twice the amount of workforce it needs. A massive layoff is needed to clean out excess folks, but QPR is not the answer. 3.The middle managers are treated like dirt and can be converted to Individual contributor any time independent of performance. Stay away if you are a manager. 4.Overall, a 'Use and Throw' attitude exists starting from CEO and prevalent among the upper management. If they don't need you irrespective of how long you have been with the company or how good a performer you are you will be just thrown out.

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4.0
Mar 27, 2026
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Pros

Relatively easy to get things done for a company with such a long history. Certainly not "start up" like, but processes like resource allocation have less overhead than working at a company like Google. Pay was pretty good for the midwest. I hear they are currently pretty open to remote work. It's also not the hardest place to work.

Cons

Opportunities are limited in software engineering. Since Apollo took over, SE was viewed mostly under the lens of "what is the least we can invest here to get the job done". There used to be a really good office in Champaign with lots of very talented software engineers put together. That's gone now.

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