The Employee Culture Of Yahoo Compared To Other Tech Firms

As the debate rumbles on into Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to ban home-workers in an attempt to rebuild the culture of the tech giant, we analyse the ViewsOnYou profiles of Yahoo and Google employees, and take a look at their employee culture:

Head to head comparisons of the two companies employees reveal:

• Yahoo employees are less sociable than Google employees

• Yahoo employees thrive away from stress compared to Google employees

• Google employees are more open to new ideas than Yahoo employees

• Yahoo employees thrive in structured environments more than Google employees

• Yahoo employees are less ambitious than Google employees

• Google employees are more visionary than Yahoo employees

The ViewsOnYou Employee Culture Snapshot is made up entirely of the ViewsOnYou profiles of company employees, aggregated to create an overall picture of the culture within the organisations. Take a look at the company profiles of: Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, Yahoo, AOL, eBay.

 ViewsOnYou CEO Ab Banerjee:

While this snapshot doesn’t prove or disprove the benefits of remote employees, it does give an idea of the challenge the company faces in turning their culture around, while the famously laid back culture of Google is reflected in the profiles of its employees.

More detailed analysis of other tech companies have also revealed interesting comparisons. For example, Apple employees come out as the most creative, while Facebook employees are the least honest.

View the full Consumer Tech Snapshot here

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How ViewsOnYou works:

Users build their ViewsOnYou professional 360 profile by getting reviewed by their peers. These reviews form an overall picture of the individual’s character. Company profiles are created by aggregating the ViewsOnYou profiles of employees from that company, to create a snapshot of the company’s employee culture.

Notes for editors:

ViewsOnYou is a London-based, crowd-sourced profiling site used by professionals to showcase to recruiters what they are like beyond their CV, and match themselves with hundreds of leading companies, from Apple to Accenture, Google to Goldman Sachs, helping them find the perfect professional fit.

ViewsOnYou is used by leading Business Schools and Companies to match the right professionals with the right roles. ViewsOnYou Employer Solutions provide tools for organisations to get a more accurate picture of the employee culture of their organisation, and match candidates, internal and external, against benchmarked high performers.

Contact:

Greg Harrison, greg@viewsonyou.com

At ViewsOnYou we passionately believe that it’s people who make a company great.

Our people are currently shaping the future of ViewsOnYou, and thanks to our talented team we’ve built a world-class product, helping professionals highlight their true character and find their fit within companies and teams.

We have a creative and inclusive culture. Whether your skills lie in development, marketing, product or sales, every employee helps makes our culture and company great. Check out our employee culture profile, just to be sure you’d be a perfect fit.

We’re expanding our team, and are looking for talented individuals who want to make their mark in the next exciting stage of our company. 

 

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About Us

ViewsOnYou is a fast-growing crowd-sourced profiling platform used by professionals to showcase their character, and match themselves with hundreds of leading companies, from Apple to Accenture, Google to Goldman Sachs, helping them find the perfect professional fit.  

ViewsOnYou is used by leading Business Schools and Companies to match the right professionals with the right roles.

ViewsOnYou - http://www.viewsonyou.com - a fast growing social-talent platform for jobseekers and professionals is used by students and graduates to help them stand out from their peers in a competitive employment environment, and find their perfect career fit.

 

 

 

Highlight your true character

There is a general consensus that once a candidate has the minimum skill set required for a job, the key to whether they will be successful is largely determined by their soft skills; how they think, work and interact, and how they fit within the culture of the organisation they join.

A ViewsOnYou profile showcases an individual’s character traits, allowing them to demonstrate to employers what they are really like, beyond academic qualifications and experience by highlighting the traits that employers are looking for.

For example, are you Aggressive or Peaceful, Extremely Ambitious, or Happy where you are?

Discover your fit with hundreds of global companies

ViewsOnYou also provides culture profiles of hundreds of leading companies, from Red-Bull to Coca-Cola, Google to Microsoft.

Users can match their own ViewsOnYou profile with that of a company to get a clear idea of the companies and industries they fit best with – from Automotive to Media, Technology to Travel, helping them make sound career choices. 

Jobseekers are using ViewsOnYou to discover how they fit the companies’ employee culture; what character traits they share with the company’s employees and what unique traits they can bring to the organisation.

 

With an increasing number of recruiters checking online profiles before making a hiring decision, a ViewsOnYou profile is one way for jobseekers to ensure they project a positive image, and show employers exactly how they stand out from the competition.

 

 

 

 

 

New college graduates are embracing social media as a job-search tool, according to a study by NACE - the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The results of their 2012 Student Survey show approximately 41% of 2012 college graduates in the market for a job are using social media to help them land one.

While students are using social media in the job search to network with employers, according to survey results students are nearly as likely to use social media as a means for researching employers — and this use is gaining in popularity.

New grads are using social sites such as ViewsOnYou.com to help discover more about the culture of the organisation they want to work for.

ViewsOnYou – an eHarmony for careers – gives individuals the ability to match their ViewsOnYou professional 360 profile with the culture of an organisation, letting them see how well they fit; both where they are similar, and where they differ, and letting them demonstrate the key traits that makes them unique. It also helps provide the answer to that most difficult of interview questions ‘what are your key strengths and weaknesses?’.

While professional networking sites such as LinkedIn are about experience, qualifications and connections, ViewsOnYou is redefining the 360 review process by crowd-sourcing reviews of individuals by their friends and co-workers, and allowing them to demonstrate their soft skills; how they work, think and interact. Linkedin describes what you have done; ViewsOnYou describes what you are like.

The Microsoft company profile for example shows that the top traits of Microsoft employees are:

Quite Ambitious

Hungry for information

Highly Intuitive

Curious, open to new ideas

Optimistic, sees only positives

http://www.viewsonyou.com/Company/Microsoft

About ViewsOnYou:

ViewsOnYou aims to be ahead of the curve in the new age of social recruiting, and team building, and already provides public profiles of leading tech companies including Apple, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Google, banks including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, and professional services firms including PwC and KPMG.

For the first time, anyone can get a sense of whether they will fit with the overall culture of any company they might want to work for. Company culture is now measurable, visible, and comparable.

“What are your key strengths and weaknesses?”

It should be a simple enough question, but it’s left many an applicant stumped over how to answer it.

What an interviewer really wants to discover are your soft skills. They will already know your academic qualifications and professional experiences, but the way you work, think and interact is equally important. These are traits and skills that until now have been hard for employers to determine until the interview process or even until a candidate has started in employment.

Professional review site ViewsOnYou can finally help you answer these questions with confidence.

Your Key Strengths

ViewsOnYou has redefined the 360 professional review process by crowd-sourcing peer reviews of how you work, think and interact. Users can create and control their professional online identity, building their ViewsOnYou profile by getting reviewed from the people who know them best, such as friends and co-workers. A ViewsOnYou profile allows you to accurately demonstrate your soft skills; how you work, think and interact.

With each review you receive, your top five key traits emerge. The more reviews received, the more accurate your profile becomes, and these top 5 traits become a key indicator of what makes you unique, and what you can bring to an organisation. Based on the ViewsOnYou calculation, only 1 in 8 million people will have the same top 5 traits!

Your Key Weaknesses

When you are asked about your weaknesses, the points to highlight should depend largely on context.  A certain character trait in one environment may be regarded as a strength, but in another it could be a weakness. Consequently, by giving the interviewer a contextual answer, you are getting to a more fundamental response.

The ViewsOnYou Company Match lets you match your own ViewsOnYou profile with the culture of companies you are interested in, and highlights not only where you are most similar to employees within the company, but also the traits where you are least similar. We believe it is these traits where you often have the most to bring to a company, so although they can be perceived as weaknesses, they are also the very same traits that make you stand out, the unique traits that you can bring to a company.

In an era when nine out of 10 employers report using social media to screen prospective employees, a ViewsOnYou profile tells the story beyond your resume, and is as integral to your public professional identity as your CV. 

User Profile, showing their key traits, based on all peer reviews received:

Company Profile showing the culture of the organisation and comparison with an individual user:

What key traits do these two giants of the computer industry share? And how do they compare against each other?

www.ViewsOnYou.com brings the greatest pioneers in the tech industry head to head.

Take a look at their profiles and discover how they compare against each other, against other global role models, and against YOU!

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