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      Bustle

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      3.4

      41% would recommend to a friend

      (175 total reviews)
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      Bryan Goldberg

      31% approve of CEO

      35% positive business outlook

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      Bustle has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 175 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bustle employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      175 reviews
      3.0
      Jan 28, 2020

      Great until the end

      Writer
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      Pros

      It was a great experience until they fired everyone to add "marquee hires" to the company and put us all out of work at the start of the holiday season.

      Cons

      It was a great experience until they fired everyone to add "marquee hires" to the company and put us all out of work at the start of the holiday season. It was so rude and insensitive. A major self-esteem killer.

      5.0
      Jan 27, 2020

      I loved my time at Bustle

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      -open door policy and approachable upper management -amazing company culture (speaker series, volunteer opportunities, happy hours, company outings, etc) -great location -summer Fridays -flexible work from home schedules -unlimited PTO -HR is fair and will fight for you I think a lot of the negative reviewers joined Bustle as their first job post-college so maybe they don't understand what it's actually like working a terrible job. Bustle is a solid company where you get out what you put in. The people and the benefits are great. There's definitely room for growth. Also, lots of women in leadership roles which is rare.

      Cons

      The space is getting tighter by the minute which makes conference and meeting space tough to find.

      1.0
      Jan 22, 2020

      Everything you read about this company is true

      Account manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - The business strategies and practices at here are set up to build quick financial profitability for the company. Perhaps at the expense of journalistic quality or compensation of hired employees. - There are people you can find here who are amazing. They should probably leave ASAP (and a lot of them are)

      Cons

      - All communications from management can be treated as probably lies. The level of gaslighting to keep people there is unreal - They protect toxic employees due to financial expediency - It's honestly appalling the lack of baseline intelligence at this company - The lack of diversity is not just a problem, it permeates the culture so deeply that you can readily notice management looking down on employees of color and queer employees. Diversity is seen as a box to check for Bustle; they view these employees as capable, but there is a miasma of unconscious bias so deep it's clear Bustle doesn't expect nor recognize intelligence and excellence from anyone that is not a straight white person. - The compensation is below industry standard.

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