3.0
16 Sept 2015
Former employee, more than 1 year
Santa Clara, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
They had some great perks and you get a chance to solve problems on a very large scale. I got some exposure to exciting open source projects.
Cons
Very disorganized and very low morale. There were huge layoffs while I was there, and one of the founders left. It was a rough time for Yahoo! Also, although they embrace open source, a lot of tools that are critical were forks of open source things that were poorly maintained or quickly abandoned. Some of the more mature forks developed into basically proprietary tools, with little, or poor documentation. There was a lot of out for number 1 and teamwork was lacking. Many teams did basically the same thing and didn't even know their counterpart teams existed (including mine).