For many of our San Francisco-based employees, it’s now a tradition to shop for gifts (or for themselves!) at the annual holiday market held at our headquarters. When organizing our first holiday market, we reflected on Yelp’s mission: to connect people with great local businesses. By bringing local artisans and chefs to our doorstep (and… Read more
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The Top 5 Jobs in Tech in 2020
Tech jobs are on the rise and here to stay. Technology organizations want to hire talent that have experience working with machine learning systems (like TensorFlow), know how to create mobile apps for Android and iOS, and understand advanced database and information security systems. The fresh start of the new year can motivate many to… Read more
Milwaukee Elite Event: Eat, Drink, and Be Tacky at Blue Bat Kitchen and Tequilaria
Things got ugly on Tuesday, December 3rd. Yelp Milwaukee Elites donned their ugliest holiday apparel in celebration of the most wonderful time of the year at Blue Bat Kitchen and Tequilaria! Tacos, tequila, and tacky sweaters all around. Elites enjoyed showing off their tacky outfits and mingling with each other while enjoying delicious bites and… Read more
Celebrating Veterans Day The Yelpy Way
Yelp’s mission is to connect people with great local businesses, so it should come as no surprise that we celebrated Veterans Day with a beer tasting from a local veteran-owned business: Ferment Drink Repeat – FDR Brewery. We talked to Karan Dinghra, the leader of VetConnect (Yelp’s veteran employee resource group), about how we support… Read more
Celebrating National Career Development Month with Gratitude
November is National Career Development Month, which means it’s a great time to reflect and be thankful about the progress you’ve made in your career up to this point. Whether you’re happy in your current job or frustrated with your situation, continuing to improve your mindset towards your job, colleagues and boss can make a… Read more
My Yelp Journey from Intern to Full-Time Hire
Hi! This is Gülsüm and I am originally from Turkey. My journey with Yelp started as an engineering intern during the summer of 2017 on Yelp’s Multi-location Business team, and I re-joined as a full-time engineer in July 2018 after I completed my undergraduate studies in Istanbul. My team’s main focus is to develop new features… Read more
Cultivating Engagement, Diversity, & Belonging at Yelp
It’s not news that diverse, engaged employees make for more profitable, productive workplaces. What’s been more elusive is the path there: how can we effectively diversify a company, foster a spirit of inclusion, and create a workplace where everyone feels they belong? At Yelp, we’ve decided to address this by making diversity, inclusion, and belonging… Read more
Tips on Moving from Intern to Full-Time
My name is Ebrahim and I am currently a software engineer at Yelp! I studied computer science in Egypt in a university called The “German University in Cairo.” After finishing my bachelor’s degree, I joined Yelp as a full-stack intern in June 2017. I spent the first three months as an intern, and then I… Read more
Supporting Working Parents at Yelp
With Mother’s Day coming up, we are highlighting our Yelp Parents group in Washington, D.C. This small but mighty group represents over a dozen moms and dads working here in our nation’s capital Many members of Yelp D.C. Parents uprooted their families from across the country in order to launch our new office. It was… Read more
Yelp Celebrates Women’s History Month
Looking back in time, women have come a long way to arrive at this year’s Women’s History Month: globally, women have increasingly gained voting rights, reproductive rights, and more representation in politics than ever. While Women’s History Month is a time to celebrate these gains, it is certainly not a time to be complacent. Today… Read more