For years, Yelp continued to use an interview process that was created when we were a 50-200 person Engineering organization, with only a handful of interviewers: Each interviewer… Read more
Every year, we celebrate Women’s History Month at Yelp during the month of March. This year, in addition to highlighting women-owned businesses and organizing our first ever Women in Business Summit, we also celebrated by highlighting some of the women at Yelp, their career journeys and successes, as well as advice that they have to… Read more
Compared to where we started, Yelp’s technical organization has made a lot of headway over the years when it comes to diverse hiring. While our approach to this work continues to evolve, we’ve made significant progress in improving the diversity of our organizations by, among other things, reducing gender and ethnicity bias in our interview… Read more
Women continue to find ways to break barriers and lift each other up. This Women’s History Month we wanted to highlight women that have created their own paths and have a passion for sharing their knowledge with others. We had the pleasure of kicking off this year’s celebration with Crystal Henrickson, a certified career and… Read more
I considered writing this as a clickbaity listicle: “7 secrets of engineering team management – you won’t believe number three!” Unfortunately that’s impossible, because it’s a much harder topic, and anyway, number three is: “many years of ongoing investment in building the right team culture, making a lot of mistakes, and learning from them.” Less… Read more
The fast transition to working from home in March of 2020 wasn’t an easy one – from procuring thousands of laptops for our sales force and additional equipment for the rest of our employees, to learning how to work across teams remotely. Following the initial scramble during those first few weeks, our employees worked hard… Read more
A career in sales can be a challenging, yet rewarding one. To be successful in sales, it’s important to recognize that there will be hurdles to overcome, and you will need to be ready to overcome them. That’s why the Yelp Sales organization has developed a rigorous training program (called the Yelp Sales Development Program)… Read more
Curious what it’s like to work at Yelp in Partner Sales? Today, we get the full scoop from Tyler Sahlstrom, Partner Sales Manager at Yelp based in San Francisco. “I manage ten people who are reaching out to marketing and advertising agencies that work with and manage small and midsize businesses in local communities. Our… Read more
After thousands of Yelp employees transitioned to working from home earlier this year, many of us were not only missing daily interactions with our colleagues but also the perks that we’d come to enjoy. Most notably, the cappuccinos from the Yelp Café and the well-stocked shelves with a variety of healthyish snacks. We decided to… Read more
We have long focused our diversity, inclusion, and belonging efforts inside of Yelp, putting our energy into diverse hiring, equitable promotion practices, and operationalizing inclusion. This year brought new opportunities to extend our focus beyond the corporate setting. In the wake of our national reckoning with countless racial injustices, it became clear that we could… Read more
There is only so much time in a day, but thanks to Yelp’s Executive Assistant team, our executives can work in the most efficient and productive manner possible. Kaitlin D., also known as “KD,” supports our Multi-Location, Local and Customer Success organizations.”We are proud to work closely with our executives and their teams to make… Read more