Connections are the heartbeat of our global community. We create inclusive spaces where our diverse perspectives can belong and inspire change. Yelp is where you can have a voice, celebrate your culture, and be your most authentic self. Here, you have the opportunity to work alongside talented people and create meaningful connections with folks from all over the globe.
Our commitment to fostering a safe and inclusive work environment
Employees should feel a sense of belonging at work, see role models who look like them, and have the same opportunities and chances to succeed. We commit to the following goals:
Increasing representation at every level
The key to representation at every level is sponsorship. We are partnering with leaders across the organization through our diversity task forces to hold ourselves accountable in building a diverse leadership pipeline and promoting
opportunities equitably.
opportunities equitably.
Using a diverse slate approach to our interview process
This approach ensures that hiring managers consider underrepresented talent when interviewing for
open positions.
open positions.
Turning away business from offensive clients
We recognize the need to address offensive clients and prospective clients who use racially-charged or other abusive language in their communication with our employees. We do not want their business and will not tolerate hate speech directed at our employees.
Continuing the conversation
There’s always more work to do. We designed a company-wide training curriculum on systemic racism and institutional bias, allyship, and more. The goal of this program is to create fluency around diversity, inclusion and belonging topics to make sure we’re supporting our employees in the most proactive way.
Creating a space where everyone belongs
We cultivate a sense of belonging through 20+ company-supported employee resource and affinity groups.
Yelp Employee Resource Groups
(YERGs)
We cultivate our diverse interests through Yelp Employee Resource Groups (YERGs). All employees are welcome to all groups! YERGs are voluntary, employee-led communities that serve as a resource for employees with shared social identities, characteristics or life experiences, as well as their allies.
Awesome Women in Engineering AWE's mission is to build a strong community for women in engineering, related teams, and their allies at Yelp by facilitating professional career building activities, networking, leadership, and mentorship opportunities.
VetConnect This is a Yelp Employee Resource Group for prior/current military, as well as family members and allies.
BlackBurst BlackBurst facilitates an authentic space for conversation, support, and shared learning and development for the Black community and its allies.
WAY (Women at Yelp) WAY (Women at Yelp) focuses on highlighting the achievements of women and female-identifying employees.
YelpCares YelpCares is dedicated to spreading philanthropy at Yelp: whether it's setting up (virtual) group volunteering events or organizing company wide fundraiser campaigns.
Women in Product Women in Product's mission is to build a strong community for women in product, related teams, and their allies at Yelp by facilitating professional career building activities, networking, leadership, and mentorship opportunities.
ColorCoded ColorCoded focuses on the engineering community. We’re passionate about utilizing the opportunities we have as employees to support each other and provide a comfortable, inclusive and engaging working environment.
Yelp Ability Yelp Ability aims to raise awareness of disabilities, and invites everyone to participate in making Yelp accessible and more inclusive.
Yelp Asian Pacific Islander (YAPI) YAPI aims to celebrate, educate, include, and promote a strong sense of community among all Asian identities - East, South, Southeast, and Pacific Islander - to grow members as Yelp employees and as individuals.
Yelp Christians, Yelp Havurah, Yelp Muslims Our religious groups help champion faith diversity & inclusion, interfaith & intersectional collaboration and allyship across Yelp. The Christian, Jewish, and Muslim networks at Yelp meet regularly to cultivate a culture of empathy, respect and belonging at Yelp for people from their faith as well as other backgrounds and worldviews.
EarthBurst EarthBurst/Green Team is a group of employees engaged in advancing sustainability at Yelp.
OutBurst OutBurst focuses on highlighting the achievements of the employees of the LGBTQ+ community.
Yelp Moms Our YelpMoms network is here to help facilitate moms transition back to work after maternity leave.
YelpParents YelpParents is for working parents to share, network and experience a healthy work/life balance while advancing their career under as little stress as possible.
SomosYelp is a space for Hispanic/Latinx Yelpers to connect, learn, and lift each other up.
NATIV This group aims to uplift Native, American Indian, Tribal and Indigenous voices, raise awareness about past and current issues, and educate on the breadth of this beautiful community.
Trans*Mission Employee Resource Group for the Trans Community at Yelp and their allies.
Yelders Yelders is an employee resource group supporting Yelp’s 40+ community. Yelpers of all ages are welcome; it's never too early or late to learn from one another's experience!.
Mental Health & Neurodiversity Mental Health & Neurodiversity is an employee resource group that supports people who are neurodiverse, people with mental health conditions, people who care about their mental health, and allies of the above individuals.
Our stories
See what our employees have to say about working at Yelp
Brittany B, Community Manager
I'm proud to be a part of the Yelp Employee Resource Group, BlackBurst. The group encourages employees of color to connect virtually with folks across the company. In addition to friendships, I hope it'll lead to amazing collaborative experiences over time.
Chris Y, Head of Agency Development
At Yelp, I have never been more comfortable being an LGBTQ+ and Filipino-American employee due to the company's focus on social change and inclusivity. The ability to be my true self has unlocked success for myself and my team.
Jim H, People Business Partner
I am lucky to be on the leadership team for OutBurst. I love living authentically while I work and connecting with people who are like me, support me, and who are different from me. We all learn from one another. It’s energizing to help organize workshops and events and see them come to life. I love feeling the impact and inclusion that
we drive.
Diandra L, Associate Regional Manager, Community
I love being part of SomosYelp.I think it’s important to share our culture within this group, and with the company as a whole, because it helps to educate the greater team about Latinx culture. I think it’s amazing to work for a company that leans into diversity and creates opportunities to support its diverse employees with programming, support, and education.
Diversity at Yelp
Our remote work model has created new opportunities to find diverse talent from many corners of the globe. We are proud of our growth but understand that there are always more ways to improve.
From the blog
Championing Authenticity and Equity: Inside and Outside
of Yelp
At Yelp, we are committed to remote work and there is no question when it comes to speaking up against policies and legislation that negatively impact our employees. The current political landscape affects our employees’ emotional, mental and physical wellbeing, making it all the more crucial to foster an inclusive environment for employees of all backgrounds.
Redefining Normal: Diversity, Engagement and Belonging in a Remote Culture
We remain committed to a distributed workforce and we recognize that our modern reality has shifted the goalpost from a “return to normal” to necessitating the definition of a new normal—one that optimizes for enabling workers to perform at their best while customizing those experiences in an engaging, inclusive, and sustainable way.
Giving 100% for Workplace Equality
We’re excited to announce that, for the eighth year in a row, Yelp received a perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and earned the designation as a 2022 Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality. The Corporate Equality Index is a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.