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
2.0
Aug 4, 2018

Toxic culture, appalling leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Generous compensation and RSUs Some amazing passionate and talented people

Cons

Awful work environment largely due to very poor senior leadership setting an example of bad behaviours as acceptable. Lacking innovation and the business is at risk of becoming obsolete if not addressed quickly. Professes to be customer obsessed but the only real obsession is dollars which drive every decision, even those at the detriment of customers. Calls itself a tech company but really all it does (and knows how to do) is sell audiobooks. Management do not act with integrity, communication is shockingly bad. Employees are not valued or treated with respect, lots of backstabbing and politics.

1.0
Jan 2, 2017

A disaster in its own clique

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Audible is a large and well known tech company for audiobooks. - Most employees have their heart in the right place and will share their struggles with management, and culture, and offer support to each other. - Offices and facilities are good. They are catered lunches, snacks, and the office buildings are well maintained.

Cons

- Toxic culture: Managers frequently use derogatory terms to refer to other hard-working people in the company, sometimes even about people in their team. - Very mixed quality of employees, exacerbated by managers who choose to ignore the incompetence of the employees who agree with them. - There is little space or encouragement of innovation: great ideas and pitches are stifled due to turf wars. - Little opportunity for growth: employees are not challenged to be the best in their field or to continue learning - The company is said to be in growing pains, but this seems to be used as an excuse by middle managers, with promises it will get better in the future, rather than respecting and trying to fix the challenges at hand. - The CEO has no idea of the incompetence within the company, and there are no mechanisms for feedback that goes beyond talking to your manager. - Recruiting is weak and lacks the ability to respect, recognize, and reward talents.

2.0
Nov 5, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Talented and passionate people remain – for now Projects can have a scope that most companies baulk at Really the only company doing what they're doing right now Once a great place to work, and still hoping it might be again

Cons

Massive culture shift heading towards soulless Amazon politics over talent Active bullies appointed to senior roles with little to no oversight Paranoia and job insecurity flourishing without any action from SLT Contract staff with full-time loads are rarely transitioned to FTE allegedly due to lack of headcount, meanwhile regional leads are hiring 5 of their friends to do half of one person's job

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