First and foremost, Yahoo is a decent company to work in my personal experience. Google fetish aside and ignore what's running on the news recently, Yahoo has always been profitable, even during the dot-bomb period. Comparing to Google, Yahoo is pretty slow at technical innovations; take a look at maps. This is mainly due to Yahoo's lack of infrastructure in place. As an engineer, I found one's ability to multi-task is key to a successful career here at Yahoo; my personal experience told me just that. In the morning when I get to work, many times I would be determined to make the final push and finish my current project at hand, but I always found myself meandering somewhere else, may it be the bureaucratic process or the lack of it or building something which I thought would have been done at a company the size of Yahoo. If one's willing to take a spin and look at it from another perspective, the lack of infrastructure does present a lot of technical opportunities and challenges. It allows me to sample, build, and try out different technologies; it makes the geek-side of me happy. All in all, Yahoo is still a decent company to work and food, though not free, is still far better than the average.
