Yelp

San Francisco, CA · founded 2004

Yelp is the crowd-sourced local-review company (Yelp.com and the Yelp app), founded in San Francisco in 2004 by two ex-PayPal engineers. Since 2021 it has gone aggressively remote-first — 'work model puts you, not offices, first' — down to essentially one US office, with employees free to live where they like and only optional in-person 'IRL' gatherings through the year. The published US benefits are genuinely broad for a mid-size public company: 16 weeks birthing / 8 weeks non-birthing leave, a 50%-of-6% 401(k) match with a $3,000 floor, a 15% ESPP discount, Modern Health therapy, a Maven family-building platform, and an unusually wide wellness reimbursement (scuba gear and blackout curtains included). Culture is built around five values, one of which is literally 'Be Unboring,' and 20+ employee resource groups. The honest caveat: this record is built from Yelp's own marketing-toned careers pages, so treat the framing as the employer's; day-to-day sales-org culture and comp are not captured here.

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Documented benefits (24)

Birthing-parent leave	16 weeks
Partner leave	8 weeks
How leave is framed	birthing_partner
Adoption & surrogacy support	offered
Fertility support	yes
Help paying for childcare	yes
401(k) match	50% of the first 6% of contributions (minimum $3,000/yr if you contribute at least 1%)
401(k) match ceiling	3%
Stock purchase plan	yes
ESPP discount	15%
Mental health	yes
Therapy platform	Modern Health
Gender-affirming care	yes
Dental	yes
Vision	yes
HSA (health savings account)	yes
FSA (flexible spending account)	yes
Pet insurance	yes
Employee discount portal	yes
Gym / fitness subsidy	yes
Wellness stipend	offered
Phone & internet	offered
Home-office stipend	offered
Wellness / mental-health days	offered

Notable perks

Wellness reimbursement that goes well beyond gym memberships — reimbursable items include exercise bikes, smartwatches, ski or scuba equipment, meditation courses, weight-loss meal programs, weighted blankets, blackout curtains and air purifiers
Airvet virtual pet care — on-demand vet access for everything from urgent health concerns to routine pet care
Maven personal health platform for fertility and family-building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, and menopause and midlife health
Out-of-state medical travel reimbursement — covers travel to another state when a covered medical service is unavailable at home due to legal restrictions
Bravely confidential career coaching — on-demand expert coaches for workplace relationships, difficult conversations and performance-review discussions

Every claim above is sourced and dated. See sources on the full page.

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