Audible reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(645 total reviews)
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Bob Carrigan

53% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Audible has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 645 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Audible employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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645 reviews
1.0
Nov 17, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free Lunches, Transit reimbursement or free parking

Cons

- Corrupt culture (for instance people from the same job tiers eat at one table and do not eat with people from lower job tiers) - Racist: If you are an international employee or speak English with an accent you will most likely be teased and made fun of. - Incompetent managers: I was at a meeting once and one of the senior managers asked if we could stay away from data, or at least make it pretty so it wouldn't be so hard to understand it!!!! - There is no clarity on how people are promoted, there is also no path to promotion. People only get promoted because they have been at Audible CS for a very very very long time. - Managers easily take advantage of their employees. Senior management always presents the work of their employees in conferences or meetings and never gives them any credit. - Job knowledge on teams like process improvement, training and project management is limited. Projects are not challenging, just doing and redoing the same thing over and over again! - At every level people are being micromanaged. - Leadership has been getting low scores on employee surveys for many years now, but they just don't care to fix it! - They lie about people leaving their teams. In interviews we were asked to say that a role is completely new and no one has left this role because of the manager!!!!

3.0
Oct 12, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great set of people in Cambridge office - Free daily lunch, snacks, happy hour and free audio books. - Job security (Hiring bar is higher so they always hire good people) - You will learn a lot on how to be a decent software engineer and what skills are needed to succeed in your NEXT career/job.

Cons

- Path to growth is not always clear. - Looks for filling senior level and leadership position from outside or recently by attracting Amazon employees, rather than growing and promoting from within. - Constant change in leadership and lots of churn in New Jersey office (Head Quarter) - Mid management lacks leadership and are only concern with having them look good and does not care too much about team dynamics or individuals growth.

2.0
Oct 3, 2016

Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free Food & Snacks, and some great extra curricular actives. As in any places, some people are really great...They also have Happy Hour!

Cons

The data is horrible, so if you are an Engineer/Analyst working with data, prepare yourself. (Although everyone knows its bad...its going to still cause you trouble). Many Product Managers have no idea what they are doing...so hope your product has a good product manager!

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