senior software engineer

software engineer

account executive

java developer

retention manager

Yahoo! Inc.

Very cliquey environment. Managers foster the clique vibe. If you are cute, or are well-connected, you will keep your job *and go perm* even though those busting their behinds around you, who *are* actually qualified, get laid off or never go perm. Funny how all those in "the clique" seemed to all have kept their jobs *and go perm* during the most turbulent times at the company - no matter how unqualified they were, (ex: a receptionist was given an analyst position - even though she never went to school for it, nor had the experience. Her background included waitressing and reception work. I later realized she was dating someone in a high position there..hmmm. Another example, a former waitress with humanitarian studies was brought in by her sister and all of a sudden had a perm position doing something she never had experience in and seemed confused all the time doing, while others all around her were on contract, hoping to go perm. She was cute and knew the right person (i.e., the right person in "the clique"). Another example of how favoritism played a role here: Another person went perm because she was given praise. Praise letters are read out loud at staff meetings by the head of the department. I later found out on the DL that the person who praised her was in a high position and in "the clique" -- and the kicker: was best friends with the person - they had grown up together. She went perm after that)). Another messed up practice: The majority of recruiters there are on contract, but, would not pass on highly-qualified candidates for positions because the candidate was a contractor at a company or had contracted too long. The irony is, the whole valley is made up of contractors! Those evaluating the candidate are themselves contractors! Very intelligent people contract for a living because that's how the valley is set up. Made absolutely no sense how many amazing candidates were passed up because they were contractors. After leaving, I found out this company has done so many people dirty. They could use a refresher in ethics.

A typical day at work involves grabbing a freshly juiced vegetable/fruit drink and an omelet at URLs (Yahoo's onsite cafeteria), reviewing my tasks for the day, digging into email, reviewing the systems for required action/adjudication of pending background checks, taking a coffee break for a free caramel macchiato.  Next, I schedule calls with candidates whose background checks require additional information or further review and responding to requests for information from clients, stakeholders.  Off to URLs for free lunch with my co-workers and boss. Back to the office for meetings and/or more work.  Mid-afternoon I take a walk around the campus, usually a mile or mile and a half, then grab a quick healthy snack from the kitchen on my floor. Then it's back to work until the close of the business day.  I then head out to catch the free shuttle from Sunnyvale to San Francisco, at which time I might finish up work using the shuttle's wifi, listen to music, play games or watch a movie on my Kindle, or take a nice nap before getting home to my family.

I love my co-workers, who have become my friends.  The hardest part of the job is getting things accomplished through our procurement system.  The most enjoyable part of my job is making solid, policy-driven decisions for the safety and security of Yahoo employees and the company's assets.  I have learned a lot at Yahoo and have been given the leverage to shape my program and improve process and technology.  Yahoo-ooooo!

Working environment was great. Was given a great opportunity to grow with the company and given many responsibilities with trust in finishing and executing each task. A typical day at work included communicating with CFO and COO on daily tasks that needed to be done for the week. Included inserting sales orders, creating sales proposals and other tasks required of me. I learned that I was able to be able to leave my comfort zone in order to complete tasks in radio that I was not diversified in. The management that was above me helped me out constantly to keep me encouraged to help finished tasks that may have been a larger obstacle than normal due to the lack of knowledge of radio lingo. The hardest part of my job was understanding the different terminology in which radio had compared to other office environments. My co-workers were great to have around keeping me motivated to come to work daily to enjoy being there. The most enjoyable part of the job was just being able to be around the different entities that went into being a sports radio station, from sales, to office administrative work, to radio trafficking.

They let employees go after 5 years loyal service or make life miserable until the employee quits.
They badger employees into overtime and overtime can be endless if they are trying to get the employee to quit.
They say they are a YOUNG company.
Most of Management is SPOILED. Managers are not professional. They talk openly to other employees about employees they don't like and their personal affairs. People without the need to know often know who is getting fired and why.
Not much that is learned will help an individual get another job.
They are selling out to outsourcing. Jobs are desperately needed here in the United States.
They are cold-blooded to employees with medical difficulties if the employee starts missing any time.
They allow co-workers to be cruel to other workers. Very Cliquey.
Swearing is allowed. There are some very nice people there but yoked there in a bad economy to pay the rent and keep food on the table.
If you don't pay heed to any of this and you do go to work there, 'document' everything with a date for your own good and keep it on your person.

Typical day at work cosist of checking emails and printing invoices that needed to be scanned into Markview for processing. Check fax machince and daily mail for invoices to be scanned into the system for processing. Sort invoices with PO numbers and non-PO numbers.
I learned how to process invoices, and print checks for payment run.
My managers were/are like my family. My whole Accounts Payable team are like my family. We worked together very well and worked hard as a team to get month end, quarter end, and year end payments done. Although, sometimes our manager was a little unprofessional at times, we all managed to get along.
The hardest part of the job was training the company we were being outsourced by. Knowing I was losing my job and also training them was a bit difficult, but I kept it professional and taught them everything I know, and we all got along really well.
The fun part about working with Yahoo, was working with my co workers, our lunches, our dinners, we were all really close and being with them and working together was the best part of my job. Also, the special events Yahoo hosted were fun too!

The team in NYC is great, very supportive and we found the time to get to know each other outside of work. Problem is the company thinks the media capital of the world is Santa Monica leaving the folks in NYC with the mentality that it’s a bureau/satellite office not taking into account that this is the media capital of the world. Communication between the folks on the west coast and east coast is horrible. West coast managers have no concept of the three hour time zone difference and expect the NY folks to be always available even when its dinner time or time for sleep. With all the layoffs, lack of direction in the company as a whole and inept middle managers that openly talk negatively about other employees I would suggest people to go someplace else that respects you, it’s well worth it. There are plenty of other companies in NYC to find that will treat you right.

When I joined the company, there were great people, a ton of industry leading technology, and a sense of camaraderie as we tried to turn around an industry icon.

Unfortunately, Yahoo never figured out its "one thing".  The one constant at the company was no product was ever finished.  Yahoo had a "ship and forget" mentality, and across all of the CEOs I worked for that never changed.

Despite all of this, I really enjoyed my experience there.  It was a fantastic training ground for learning how to execute in challenging and dysfunctional environments.  Those product leaders who could work well with others, fight without ego, and drive towards a common goal were able to deliver despite everything else going on.

Few other places offer the scale, impact and global reach of the products we worked on.  However, the past year has shown a significant, and fatal, decline in leadership, culture, and opportunity.

Responsible for leading a software engineering team in Cloud services. Network monitoring, tools, automation and integration services provided to multiple groups across Yahoo platforms and infrastructure.
-- Network Monitoring: Monitor all network devices via SNMP or API’s , store data in grid
-- Splunk: Aggregate logs from network devices in central splunk instance
-- DNS: Dns database (LAMP stack), API’s and CLI tools
-- OpenStack: Integrating Openstack with systems infrastructure, VM and baremetal provisioning -- IPMI: Enabling IPMI for console and bootbox services on production hosts
-- Security Operations: Automating ticket generation for malware alerts generated by FireEye
-- System Administration teams: Rename, Re-ip, Reimage production hosts, via web and CLI
-- Finance: Audit of all hosts and network gear across all colos worldwide
-- Site Ops: Eliminating Tech debt by identifying vulnerable packages across production hosts
-- Edge infrastructure: Configuration automation for Proxy and caching services
-- Technologies: Java, Python, Html, Css, Pig

Working as a Contributor for Yahoo! taught me many things about SEO, sharpened my research and writing skills, and provides a wider platform for my articles than my own blog or a writing for a less-known entity would. 

The job is entirely internet-based, and as such I have no face-to-face interaction with other contributors though my colleagues who I've contacted through the Contributor Network were always very helpful and more than willing to share tips to improve my writing and increase my page views.

It was challenging to stay on top of current events, sift through search engine data to find which current topics were most likely to reach the widest audience, and then producing a well-written article all before the topic became old. However the feedback I received in the form of reader commentary, as well as the knowledge that my writing was good enough to pass a professional editorial process was extremely rewarding.  

I worked for Yahoo for a year, within that year I've seen my department as a revolving door of new people. The team I worked with went through at least 3 major changes in order to better serve the goal they were trying to accomplish and in my opinion they still do not have a working model. My talents, along with some of the talents of my former co-workers were mismanaged in order to better serve the needs of management, from the time I started I was "guided" into an area of Operations that was not suited to my knowledge and experience. 

The work/life balance in the team I worked with was barely manageable. The shift was 13 hours long and while you were given a 90 minute break, it didn't make up for the fact that every other week you worked 65 hours.

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