Life at Yahoo!
Introducing the Yahoo! Burbank Office
Posted: 2nd of January, 2013Nestled in the heart of the media capital of the world, the Yahoo! Burbank office is situated just outside of the Burbank Airport, an easy 10-minute walk from the passenger terminals. From beaches to mountains to the movie industry to outstanding institutions of higher learning, the many pleasures and opportunities of the greater Los Angeles area are all within easy reach of our Burbank office.
More than 400 employees work at this amazing campus, including search, sales and operations, marketing, labs and more. They provide deep and meaningful analytics, ensures high network quality across all platforms, improve experience of Yahoo! Bing Network in collaboration with Microsoft, build advanced business relationships with advertisers, and enhance the knowledge and awareness of Yahoo! in the market. To ensure the sales force has the knowledge and skills to grow revenue share and advertiser satisfaction, the Yahoo! Sales Learning + Development team create engaging on-line and in-class curriculums for the Yahoo! Sales University that are business relevant and performance focused. Another very unique group in Burbank is the highly recognized research branch of Yahoo! Labs. Tarun Bhatia, Principal Research Scientist, has been selected as one of the ten Master Inventors of 2012 in Yahoo!. His inventions span consumer utilities, ad products, ad effectiveness instruments, marketplace design and inventory management.

Boys
& Girls Club visited the Burbank Office Together with other Yahoo! offices, Burbank
employees have the opportunity to participate the “Paid Corporate Volunteer
Day” and volunteer at amazing nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles area,
including Habitat
for Humanity, TreePeople/Park Tree Care
Day, Inner-City Arts/ Top to Bottom Day, just to
list a few. Last November, the Women in
Tech (WIT) Burbank Chapter invited a group of girls from the Pasadena Boys & Girls Club to visit the
Burbank campus and inspired the girls by presenting the impact that women
engineers can make at Yahoo!. Every year in November, the Burbank office has an
annual Frozen Turkey Drive and/or Gift Card donation to support the Burbank Temporary Aid Center. The office was able to provide close to $1,000 in
donations in 2012. In addition to contributing to external communities, the Burbank
employees also value communication and relationships within the company. The WIT group hosted various brown bags and panel discussions
to provide networking opportunities with senior leaders and facilitate career
development discussions.






