Marissa A. Mayer — - at Alphabet Inc | Comparably
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Marissa A. Mayer — - at Alphabet Inc

Marissa A. Mayer — - at Alphabet Inc

Executive Bio

Ms. Marissa A. Mayer served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Yahoo! Inc. (Now known as Altaba Inc.) from July 17, 2012 to June 13, 2017. Prior to Yahoo, Ms. Mayer served as a Vice President of Location & Local Services of Alphabet Inc. (also known as Google, Inc.) from October 12, 2010 to July 16, 2012. She served as Vice President of Search Products & User Experience of Google Inc. She served as Vice President of Local and Maps of Google, where she oversaw product management, engineering, design and strategy for its suite of local and geographical products, including Google Maps, Google Earth, Zagat, Street View and local search, for desktop and mobile. She also curated the Google Doodle program, celebrating special events on Google's homepage around the world. During her 13 Years at Google, Ms. Mayer served numerous positions, including engineer, designer, product Manager and executive and launched more than 100 well-known features and products. She played an instrumental role in Google search, leading the product management effort for more than 10 years, a period during which Google Search grew from a few hundred thousand to well over a billion searches per day. She led the development of some of Google's most successful services including image, book and product search, toolbar and iGoogle and defined such pivotal products as Google News and Gmail. Ms. Mayer is listed as an inventor on several patents in artificial intelligence and interface design. She joined Google as first female engineer in 1999 and played an important role in developing Google's culture. Her contributions included overseeing the look-and-feel of Google's iconic homepage and founding the Associate Product Manager program, which has hired over 300 of Google's future leaders and is considered the industry's ideal standard in transforming new computer science graduates into executive leaders. Prior to Google, she served at the UBS research lab in Zurich, Switzerland and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. Ms. Mayer has been an Independent Director at AliphCom, Inc. since May 1, 2013 and Walmart Inc. (formerly known as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) since 2012. She served as Director of Yahoo! Inc. from July 17, 2012 to June 13, 2017. She serves as a Trustee of San Francisco Ballet Association. She serves on the Board of Directors of Walmart and Jawbone. She has been a Member of Executive Council at TechNet since March 14, 2013. She serves on the boards of various non-profits, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She served as a Director of New York City Ballet, Inc. Ms. Mayer has been honored with the Matrix Award by the New York Women in Communications, as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and as Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine. Fortune has named Ms. Mayer has been featured in various publications, including Newsweek (10 Tech Leaders of the Future), Red Herring (15 Women to Watch), Business 2.0 (Silicon Valley Dream Team), BusinessWeek, Fortune and Fast Company. While at Stanford, she taught computer programming to more than 3000 students and received the Centennial Teaching and Forsythe Awards for Ms. Mayer contributions to undergraduate education. She is credited as an inventor on several patents in artificial intelligence and interface design. In 2008, the Illinois Institute of Technology awarded Ms. Mayer an honorary doctorate of engineering. She graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and Artificial Intelligence and M.S. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Executive Team Culture Ratings from Alphabet Inc Employees

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Alphabet Inc's Executive Team scores in the Top 20%
of similar sized companies on Comparably
Who ranks the Executive Team the highest?
Ethnicity - Caucasian 91/100
Tenure - Less than 1 Year 86/100
Department - Finance 85/100
Who ranks the Executive Team the lowest?
Ethnicity - Asian or Pacific Islander 58/100
Tenure - 2 to 5 Years 60/100
Department - All Industries 60/100

Alphabet Inc's Executive Team at a Glance

Based on 31 ratings, Alphabet Inc's employees are satisfied with their Executive Team and give them a ā€œB+ā€ or 74/100.

Alphabet Inc's Executive Team ranks in the Top 20% of other companies on Comparably that also have 10,000+ Employees.

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