Pros
I worked at Yelp for about 7 months. It was incredibly exciting in the beginning. Yelp was just starting out in the UK and the atmosphere was great. You got: - excellent training. - fun, young colleagues - free food, the beer keg!
Cons
However, all the free bagels and hummus could not make me work there again. What initially started out as an exciting and rewarding experience soon turned into a bit off a nightmare. It is essentially a telephone sales role. How you do depends on the territory you get so if you luck out on this it all goes down hill. You work with great people who tend to disappear one by one. Initially they were fired for not meeting expectations (at this point quite unrealistic sales expectation as Yelp was a new product in the UK that no one had heard of) but eventually we started leaving in droves. Some of my friends left without even having another job to go to they were so desperate. It became taboo to talk about those who had left so many a lunchtime conversation was spoken in hushed tones. The reason: THE PRESSURE! so much pressure, the managers would walk up and down the office making announcements about how if we didn't make a deal in the next hour we should just pack up and leave. Constant threats of being fired means that there's this atmosphere of panic and just downright depression.