Audible reviews

Really horrible, unwelcoming cliquey culture. Very much a sense that if you don't get in with the right people, your time there will be short. I avoided the worst of this, but saw first-hand how talented new joiners fell foul of said culture. At times it can genuinely be nasty.

The Amazon stock split greatly devalued my compensation. The RSU awards after it were minuscule and I was losing money year over year staying here with a less than 2% raise in salary. There is a big problem with management here as well. I don’t think Leadership and HR care one bit about ICs down the totem pole. Senior management amongst my team was non-existent and even detrimental to my work. I never had an opportunity to share my opinion on work processes in a meaningful way. The director for our team always delegated leading project and meetings to individual contributors. I honestly have no idea how they got hired. This was the only company I worked at where I felt no incentive to put my best effort out. Performance is based on how much you get done instead of the quality. It ultimately led to a lot of burnout to which I communicated to management and nothing happened. I found Audible to be a very performative workplace in terms of its culture and work-life balance. The extra PTO/wellness days certainly were great, but really you’re just coming back to work to handle those responsibilities you missed anyway. There was no sense of team effort with my experience here and the management flat out sucked for what the company stands for and its tremendously successful product.