AWeber reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(85 total reviews)
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Tom Kulzer

63% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

AWeber has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 85 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AWeber employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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85 reviews
1.0
Nov 15, 2017

Not so transparent

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free lunch and paid medical.

Cons

A lot of the 4 and 5-star reviews on here are from current employees. Why? Because HR pushes it down your throat to come on here and write a positive review to help attract people to the company. One of the recruiters even asked me if I wrote a review and tried to "guess" which one was mine. Needless to say I'm only writing now that I've left the company. Management here is terrible. The CEO who founded the company needs to take a step back and let people do their jobs. A lot of people are extremely talented and the company had potential, but he and the other leadership team present ideas that are very dated and borderline spammy. It's easy to see why there's a lot of turnover with recent employees. If you take a job here, be prepared to talk a lot about your feelings. There are several monthly meetings with your team where you are forced to "open up", only for this to be used against you by your manager and the leadership team. It is a very weird, Silicon Valley type of thinking that is what's keeping AWeber behind. Biggest waste of time. There's also a lot that goes on behind the scenes that HR and the "Chief People Officer" turn a blind eye to. It really is a game here, sadly, and people that drink the Kool Aid can get away with a lot of sexist comments and harassment. There is also no opportunity for advancement or growth here, so you need to be ok with your career being flatlined. Promotions are mostly title, not compensation.

2.0
Feb 12, 2014

Small pond

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice coworkers Frequent company sponsored events The people are truly pleasant here. Everyone is generally interested in collaboration and making the company successful.

Cons

Micro-managing CEO Rampant cronyism Doesn't move with industry trends Low pay No advancement unless you make the right friends Claims of open and modern work environment untrue The biggest problem is that this company doesn't seem to live up to its claims. For example they advertise that they have two large movie rooms, but the CEO canceled movie day so they are largely for decoration. Additionally, they claim to be an open-minded, cool place to work, but expect company wide emails regarding such things as walking on the grass too soon after it's cut or using the wrong doors to enter and exit the building. There's also no room for advancement. They claim to have a flat structure that keeps work from becoming a rat race. Then the CEO and CTO promote their friends into senior positions or hire them into senior positions from the outside. Meanwhile those that have earned titles are left in the cold. The last problem is that no one seems to want to adhere or at least be aware of industry trends. Blog articles from companies such as google , Netflix and Amazon are often sent out but there is no effort to discuss or implement the ideas contained in them so they simply lie dormant. If you come from a shop that reacts to hanging trends expect to unlearn everything you picked up and re-learn the wrong way. Things like agile, scrum, kanban, cloud and devops will exist in name only. They are so slow to market that at the time of this writing the only existing mobile app is written and maintained by a customer.

2.0
Jan 1, 2018

There's a Dark Side Here

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits. The building is really cool, but the slides are mostly for show. Some good people work here.

Cons

Two of AWeber's supposed core beliefs are to foster respect and welcome feedback. Both are bogus. You can ask or say anything you believe, but it can and will be used against you. And respect is definitely selective. Management frequently belittles and demeans people in subordinate positions. They have a vindictive streak you need to watch out for.

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