YELLOWBOOK Employer Reviews

Now called Hibu - Yellowbook had a great working atmosphere. Slumps in the economy demanded cuts in the workforce, unfortunately and a lot of my friends and former co-workers were hurt by the layoffs. However, it was a fun environment. Like any large company there were some fantastic managers and some that were not, but overall it was a great place – more... to work. – less

12 plus hours a day, lots of stress for 40k. Good health care, long hours pulled in a lot of different directions.

This company gave be great benefit in perfecting my sales ability in moving forward in my career in sales. I would recommend this company

this is a good job for any student wanting to make extra money on the side. great experience for route delivering.

Job requirements and pay schedules were in a state of constant change.

Although it was a temporary position, I really liked working at Yellowbook

This was a great company to work for for the first 5 years. I used to brag about how fun my job was. Then the times changed and advertisers were looking for new ways besides the phone book. With client loss, job joy went down with it.

You are assigned a small book of business to service when you start off. The rest of the time is cold calling and building a pipeline. The expense allowance is very low and does not cover gas, phone, colored copies and ink for your printer. Once you get an appointment
you can spend hours on prep at night-reviewing the companies visibility, developing – more... potential spec ads and building 4-6 proposals. You have multiple products to push and management will make you focus on just one product if its coming to a deadline. Lots of competition in the market for all of these products. Not many people use phones books anymore! – less

Do your job EVERY day and you will be rewarded. The product is outdated but the company is attempting to save itself by bringing in new products such as SEO/ SEM and online Display. If you do not like cold calling then I would stay away from this job.

Yellowbook is a corporation I would have no hestiation returning too. The expectations and training provided by the company were outstanding. The company offered incentives often and kept the desire to progress within the company.

I love my job and my work environment. Work as a team and as individuals. Great cafe for food and to watch tv and relax during lunch. Use my lunch sometimes to workout in our own work gym.

a typical day at work is a great day for me most of the time. we make calls to our reps in tyhe field help them out and solve customer issues and make a few sales while in the process. the compensation for the work done is great i like it here quite a lot. the most enjoyable times is being able to have fun and kid around a little bit with reps, build – more... relationships, and then put the game face on and go to work. – less

The people who work here are incredible and make the atmosphere lively. There are many opportunities within the company and depending on the department flexible scheduling as well. The benefits offered are pretty good and the facility offers a fitness center and a catered cafeteria.

We changed the brand of Yellowbook to Hibu so the corporate heads are trying to make our working experience more fun at work. Although in my particular dept there is no room for advancement. Thus the reason I am on indeed looking for a career.

• Extensively used Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.0/9.1 as an ETL tool for development
• Designed the custom error control logic with in the pipeline to capture and load the bad records to a control table, and recover the workflow in the event of failures
• Developed the mapping logic to create a table controlled parameter file
• Developed the Type1 and – more... Type2 slowly changing dimension logics to load the data into targets
• Designed mapplets, and reusable transformations within the ETL pipeline to embed the business process logic
• Extensively worked on performance tuning, monitoring, scheduling and maintaining ETL procedures and processes
• Interacted with the business users to collect business functional requirements and translated them to ETL specification documents using Velocity Methodology and also prepared the ETL documentation for data conversions
• Used ETL debugger extensively to identify the performance bottlenecks within the mappings
• Optimizing/Tuning mappings/sessions, indexing and partitioning for better performance and efficiency
• Used workflow manager to create workflows, sessions, and used various tasks like command task, email task, control task and decision task
• Involved in analysis of Session, Event and Error logs for troubleshooting mappings and sessions
• Designed and developed mappings, involving various active and passive transformations such as source qualifier, aggregator, expression, filter, joiner, unconnected and connected lookups, update strategy and union transformations
• Used appworx for automatic job scheduling – less

management is great they really take care of employees compensation is great
work hours is excellent no micromanagement your own pace

Inside sales reps spend the bulk of their day on the phones contacting revenue accounts or contracting prospects to generate new business. Four sales people were together in one large cubicle which was a nice way to get to know and get comfortable with co-workers. The hardest past of the job is overcoming objections and winning an unhappy customer back. – more... Most enjoyable part of the job was interacting with fellow reps. – less

cold calling, travel 4 months of the year. Learned a new software. Everything was done on paper before laptops. Job turned into data entry.

A typical day is go to my set appointments for current customers, the focus there is to renew and increase, or handle there needs.

The work days are very long depending on the office you are located in. Sometimes you have check in times morning or evening. Again depending on your location you will have excessive travel, staying in a hotel 4 nights a week....unless you prefer to drive an hour min to and from your market.