Yandex reviews

4.1

76% would recommend to a friend

(2,494 total reviews)
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Arkady Volozh

86% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Yandex has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,494 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Yandex employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Oct 28, 2014

Cool company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting projects, good and young employees, cool professionals, open info inside all company, nice office, open-and creative minded guys, very nice internal tools: wiki, staff, blogs, it is easy to communicate with top management, free schedule

Cons

Big company and some kind of bureaucracy in big teams/projects, middle salaries, all interesting work in Moscow office only, problems with work/life balance

4.0
Oct 15, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart people, fast development, great products. Local search engine leader for a long time.

Cons

Salary is not aligned anyhow, but depends heavily on your conversation with manager. I worked for 3 months as intern and then converted into full time employee, but salary remained almost the same. After a while I got offer from other company which I liked much more anyway with double salary and happily left. The culture was fine, however if I compare to the next employer, it was sometimes too harsh. We tend to make fun of each other and behave aggressively, but it's more like a game, people did respect each other mostly.

2.0
Sep 26, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Some good products which are not managed very well - Fresh tea in every hour of the day - Most employees are young, good environment if you're under 25 or looking for the atmosphere - Work/life balance is OK

Cons

- Company could have had revolutionary products, but due to poor strategy and implementation, the impact is minor - Poor management vision, un-ability to reach targets - Managers who seem to know everything but doesn't. It's usually an effort to explain your side due to language barrier (few Russians can perfectly understand English) - Central management doesn't care about Turkey and company's brand image here - Variable, unclear targets - Poor C-level, many focus on personal career instead of company's interests - Non-existant HR - Forget about career development - Very poor office location (in middle of disastrous traffic) - Several unhappy workers, infectuously unhappy environment - Many disrespectful people, you could hear people playing loud music in the office when you try to focus - Had used to give travelling allowance but not anymore

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