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
5.0
Oct 5, 2015

Great Comapny

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Audible is very conscience of creating a very warm and welcoming workplace. Between the countless extracurricular activities like sports and clubs and daily lunches, it is more like being back in college rather than working.

Cons

The building Audible is currently located in is not suited to their growth. Constantly running out of room to expand. Commuting to Newark is also sometimes not a joy.

4.0
Oct 1, 2015

Great company, some awful HR

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great working environment, smart people, awesome work-life balance, promising projects.

Cons

I love everything in Audible but one HR. As a non-resident employee who needs visa support, it is so import that the HR, who is in charge of this, to be helpful. However, the person does such a horrible job that I (and many similar colleagues) have to worry about every details, such as pushing her to prepare documents, constantly asking her about the status, etc. She almost always ignores your emails/IMs. I got frustrated everytime. The worst thing is she is the only person dealing with these kinds of stuff. You have no choices.

1.0
Sep 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Catered lunch, snacks, AMZN RSUs. If free lunch and vesting stocks worth $$$ are the only thing that matters in your life this is the place.

Cons

Audible is a market leader in the audiobooks rapidly growing in double digits that has forgotten about its secret sauce that made it happen- People. To the CEO or whoever is in charge de facto people don't matter any more. The company is run by a handful of stooges Director and above who are selfish mean and self-serving to the core. Most of the people are the result of attrition of one specific company across the Hudson and they have brought their politics and selfishness here and infused it in every corner. It used to be a high energetic place where young people were busy writing codes to their destiny and making audible successful. However these middle management stooges have come and brought their own stooges from across the Hudson in droves and installed them in every corner. There is absolutely no direction anywhere. The Directors/VPs have massive egos and just keep throwing people in the fire for them. For the Analysts and Technology people we are openly trated as second class employees compared to an elite group of entitled losers called the "Business". The Business on the other hand don't know the basics of business yet take the key decisions. Most of the middle management are incapable and narrow minded and set people below them on a wild goose chase for months every now and then and after nothing fruitful comes out of these bound for failure ventures they accuse the developers and then set them on a PIP (their favorite weapon of torture). Rest do some basic googling about employee grievances.

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