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
Dec 1, 2014

Fun place to work with interesting colleagues and great perks.

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Pros

Office environment is beautiful. Large stocked cafe; hot catered lunch provided daily; Ping Pong tables. Knowledgable leadership, team environment.

Cons

Traffic congestion if driving to Newark.

2.0
Nov 14, 2014
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Pros

Amazon (in name only). Daily catered lunch. It's often lacking in nutritious value and in variety. Some brilliant co-workers. They tend to leave quickly, though. The customer service department is absolutely incredible. They are likely the only high-performing, low-churn department in the company. It's too bad they're treated terribly by the rest of us.

Cons

Middle/senior management is woefully inconsiderate of current tech trends. Getting anything done is an impossible nightmare. There's not just the typical bureaucracy to overcome; you've also got to deal with the fact that few developers, product managers, pencil-pushers, and engineers alike actually UNDERSTAND the product. Very little career development support. Audible's administration is often at odds with official Amazon administration, which has made me need to fight tooth and nail for the benefits and rewards I've earned. When major changes come to tax, benefit, and RSU policies, there's hardly any communication or support. Compensation is absolutely pathetic given that Audible advertises its "close proximity" to NYC. Raises are impossible to achieve beyond the meager 1% "cost of living" increases, which are far below today's rate of inflation. RSUs used to pad those pathetic wages. Amazon's stock price always plummets during the typical employee RSU vesting periods. (HMMMMM!) We spend half the year on Audible's dumbed down, idiotic version of the OP1 process and then follow almost none of the actual things decided on during those discussions. Newark - this city is a disgusting wasteland. Nobody should ever have to commute to there from NYC. New Jersey Transit is less effective than the MTA - that's really saying something. The company has not dealt with their enormous expansion efforts very well.

5.0
Nov 11, 2014

Amazing Work Culture and Learning Environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Audible has a world class combination of Smart and Caring individuals, with a common goal, that easily defines us as one big family. There are employees with differences in leadership skills, as well as comradary, which only helps every employee to get better at what they do, or want to do in the future. I personally have learned alot and am still learning every day, which makes coming to work just the more exciting.

Cons

The easy going, casual work culture can be taken advantage of, by employees who are not motivated by their work and our product goal as well as their career ambitions. But if thats the case, then the employee will only be shooting themselves in the foot.

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