Yelp laid off over 100 people after dissolving mid market enterprise division. Offering a few people low paying jobs in local division so it doesn’t appear like a large layoff. Very sketchy tactic.
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There is a problem with companies who are selling to SMEs and smaller businesses --- they can't seem to get the product right where is helps a small biz owners. Yelp needs to make a certain amount of money per sale....yet that is too rich for many small biz owners. I offer yelp to my clients after Google and Facebook and after they have a website...I think that if you can sell Yelp you can sell to anyone and you can make really good money as a local digital marketing 'agent broker'. Yelp people should go work on their own. They can work as an iMediaSalesTeam member or invest in a platform then when they get that small business on the phone they can work with the entire $5000/month budget...not just with $1000 a month that they don't even want to spend with Yelp.
My friend worked in midmarket and said they were forced to exaggerate forecasted sales to manipulate stock price for a potential sale!!
I should have been smarter than to accept a role here.
this place is trash and nobody knows what they’re doing
Yelp is a absolute joke!
Sketchy and extremly unethical business practices!!!
My son was offered a promotion from Yelp yesterday . He was in Midmarket and said a lot of his friends lost their jobs with no explanation. He accepted the promotion offer but said he is still going to look for another job because the company is so disorganized and does not care about employees.
Yelp does not care about employees. Laid off with no real explanation while some colleagues were told they could stay but new position would be less money
My daughter was laid off yesterday through a recording. No reason, no human contact. Very callous in my opinion.