An Update on Yelp’s Office Reopenings
Earlier this year we shared that returning to the office will be optional for the vast majority of employees at Yelp as we’ve embraced a remote-first, distributed workforce…. Read more
Meet Idan Izhaki, Software Engineer at Yelp
Interested in knowing what it’s like to work at Yelp as a Software Engineer? Today we hear from Idan Izhaki, a Software Engineer working on the Search Quality team based in San Francisco. “My team helps users on Yelp find what they’re looking for more quickly with high-quality search results. I am coming up on… Read more
Engineering Career Series: Building a thriving engineering team
This post brings our Engineering Career Series to an end. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it as much as we’ve enjoyed sharing Yelp’s philosophy on building engineering careers in a thoughtful, equitable, and enjoyable way. As the series has shown, building a thriving engineering team requires ongoing investment in people and in processes. It requires… Read more
Engineering Career Series: Fostering inclusion & belonging within Yelp Engineering
Recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new employees in Engineering at Yelp is a multi-team, cross-functional effort as we have laid out in our Career Series blog posts. But once people are here, how do we retain them? While career advancement, technical leadership, and pay equity are all important components to building a happy engineering team, we… Read more
Engineering Career Series: Ensuring Pay Equity & Career Progression in Yelp Engineering
At Yelp, we care deeply about ensuring all employees are compensated fairly for their contributions, regardless of their gender, race, and ethnicity. Within Yelp Engineering, we work hard to achieve equal pay for equal work through a combination of tactics: Well-defined career levels and corresponding pay bands A systematic levels calibration process across teams Transparency… Read more
Why Yelp’s hiring strategy in Canada no longer requires being in an office
When Yelp first started building engineering and product teams in Canada in 2019, our plan was to create a workforce based out of our Toronto office. Over the past year as we adapted to being an entirely remote workforce we realized, like many companies, that people don’t need to work in offices to be collaborative… Read more
Meet Kimberly M, Mid-Market Client Partner At Yelp
Like many parents, Kimberly felt the pressures of parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only was she supporting her family, but she was also helping her children adjust to remote learning, all while continuing her education outside of work. Her role at Yelp helps her have a healthy work-life balance and offers the support she… Read more
Engineering Career Series: How we think about engineering management
In our last post we talked about technical leadership, one of the growth paths available to software engineers at Yelp. In this post we’d like to share more about engineering management, which is another path that some software engineers choose after some time in the industry. We’ll start with an explanation of what engineering management… Read more
Meet Waldon White, Sales Manager at Yelp
Wondering what it’s like to work at Yelp as a Sales Manager? Continue reading to get the inside scoop from Waldon White, a Local Sales Manager at Yelp. Sales Managers at Yelp are responsible for managing a team of 10-12 inside sales executives and driving monthly revenue targets through new business acquisition. Q: Tell us… Read more
Engineering Career Series: Technical leadership at Yelp
In this post we’re discussing technical leadership, a topic that is paramount to any engineering organization, but is also hard to define. Even observing whether your team, organization, or company has good technical leadership can be a challenge. You might be thinking right now, “Am I a good technical leader?” To help describe how Yelp… Read more
Engineering Career Series: Career paths for engineers at Yelp
About 5 years after joining Yelp, I was managing several teams in our Hamburg, Germany office and asked my manager, a director at the time, what were the expectations for an engineering manager versus a director. While the conversation was helpful to me at that moment, the gist was basically “we haven’t written that down.”… Read more