Yoto

Screen-free kids audio players
Last updated:
January 31, 2026
Company details
HQ
HEADCOUNT
100-499
ORG TYPE
Startup
SECTOR
Retail & Consumer
About the company
Yoto builds interactive audio players and content that children can control without using a screen, with a product range that includes the Yoto Player and Yoto Mini. The company sells audio titles via physical cards and an app-connected catalogue, and positions the product around screen-free play and learning. Yoto runs a global team with roles across product, engineering, growth, content, and operations, and publishes hiring FAQs that explain how recruiting and onboarding work.
Locations and presence
The company’s careers site lists offices in London and New York City, plus smaller teams in multiple regions. Current openings also reference country-based hubs (for example UK HQ, USA, and Australia) alongside hybrid and remote statuses.
Palpable Score
64.2
/ 100
Yoto is strongest on pay transparency and practical support once you start, with clear onboarding, a buddy system, and role pages that include salary bands and benefits for at least some roles. The score is dragged down by limited day-one entry roles on the live job board and mixed public feedback about workload and structure, which makes early-career outcomes harder to trust without more data.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

8.7
/ 20
  • The company’s current open roles skew mid-level to senior, including a “Mid-Level Frontend Engineer” and multiple lead or head-of roles rather than 0–2 year pathways.
  • Yoto has advertised junior roles publicly in the past, including “Junior UX Designer” and “Junior Content Creator,” which shows the company does sometimes hire early-career profiles even if those roles are not live right now.
  • The company offers a “Candidate Connect” option for speculative applications, but the careers site does not show a recurring internship or graduate pipeline in the current openings list.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

15.0
/ 20
  • The company publishes a standard interview flow in the careers FAQ, describing a streamlined 3–4 stage process with a talent screen, skills interview, task-based interview, and a final culture interview.
  • Yoto’s job ads can be unusually specific for a scaleup, with at least one role stating “Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 based on experience” and detailing team composition and day-to-day responsibilities.
  • The company has mixed public interview feedback, with some candidates reporting positive, well-explained processes and others reporting less smooth experiences, which limits confidence in consistency across teams.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

14.0
/ 20
  • The company explains onboarding in concrete terms, including pre-boarding information, a New Starter Hub on Notion, week-one setup, a 1:1 with the manager, and a buddy.
  • Yoto describes cross-functional “mission-based teams” and day-to-day collaboration expectations in at least one role, which supports learning through pairing with design, product, QA, and data partners.
  • The company has public employee feedback mentioning weak onboarding and overload in some teams, and the job ads do not consistently describe ongoing review cadence beyond the initial ramp.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

16.5
/ 20
  • The company publishes salary ranges for some roles and pairs them with a long, itemised benefits section that includes private medical cover or a wellbeing allowance, pension contributions after probation, and income protection.
  • Yoto offers stability-focused policies that matter early in a career, including company sick pay that increases with length of service, enhanced family leave options, and a clear holiday structure with extra leave after tenure milestones.
  • The company does not publish salary bands for every open role, so pay fairness for early-career candidates outside the roles with ranges is harder to verify.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

10.0
/ 20
  • The company has a visible split in public sentiment, with Glassdoor reporting a high recommend-to-a-friend percentage while also hosting reviews that describe disorganisation, understaffing, and uncompensated overtime.
  • Yoto is hiring across multiple functions and geographies at once via a central ATS, which is a “repeat hiring” signal, but it is not proof of junior progression or retention.
  • The company’s LinkedIn profile shows the team size in the 200+ range, but the company does not publish early-career outcome signals like internship-to-offer rates, promotion timelines, or 12–24 month retention data, so the outcomes score is capped by missing evidence.

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