Loved working here! - Product Manager Yammer Employee Review

-Really smart team that values collaboration, but also everyone's unique expertise -Product team is focused on learning and failing, experimenting with process as well as features. Takes a holistic approach to product development usage trends, A/B testing, user research, competitive/market trends, and long term strategy. -Lots of opportunities to have your voice heard and influence the way things are done -Great people. Healthy debate is part of the culture, but it's all respectful and people are invested in cultivating great working relationships -Management is genuinely invested in your happiness and growth -Values diversity and inclusion. There are concerted efforts for recruiting and retention of diverse candidates, and several groups including Women at Microsoft and Blacks at Microsoft put on great events -Values forming relationships in the community. We have outreach and partnerships with many different non-profits in mid-market and the Tenderloin, with lots of opportunity to get involved -Ability to learn from Microsoft and access resources and opportunities, without being embedded in the Microsoft culture. Yammer still maintains a lot of independence -Relaxed working hours. Flexible and reasonable.

Not many I can think of. Experience on the product team has been great.

* Wonderful people. Some of the best people I've ever worked with. Smart, friendly, easy-going. * Great work/life balance. Low drama environment leads to a pleasant workday. The company is mostly not-deadline driven, so the pace of work is rarely breakneck. * Management is generous and easy to get along with. * No email to deal with. Nobody in Yammer sends each other email. Everyone uses Yammer, which is better than email. * Total compensation is generous * Almost nobody uses Windows at a Microsoft-owned company -- all laptops are Macs * Gorgeous huge spacious office * Generously stocked food, free lunch and dinner. * Fun hackdays & offsites

* The product is stagnant. Too many competing product goals make big improvements nearly impossible. Local maxima was long ago acheived. Projects drag out too long, the pace of improvement is glacial. * The web product hasn't changed much since the acquisition in 2012, though the iphone and android app have improved a lot. * The product has some significant persistent bugs that make it feel somewhat unprofessional to use, bugs that are so expensive to fix that the engineering org is unwilling to invest in fixing them. * There's a certain amount of subtle background disdain for Microsoft among some Yammer employees. This is understandable to a degree, given MSFT's arcane bureaucracy. * The culture has experienced a slow motion death-by-a-thousand-cuts since the acquisition in 2012. It's still a great culture, still much better than most office environments, but the culture is slowly eroding. * Morale is very quietly pretty low -- lots of new hires are required to replace all the people who are leaving.