My Brain Has Been Asleep for a Year - Anonymous employee AOL Employee Review

2.0
Aug 4, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Autonomy, flexible WFH hours, cool office (in New York)

Cons

-Very little room for creatives to be, well, creative. Very much an environment where the creative work suffers because higher ups in other departments like to micromanage and are deeply afraid to change course on any given project. -Constant reorganizations and evolving work descriptions. -Little to no creative oversight or feedback. -"Hurry up and wait" culture and unclear vision for most products I work on. I felt like none of my work had a definitive scope or execution plan. Often wondered at the end of the day if what I did made any difference in the long run. -Teams in Palo Alto were extremely hard to work with. Very fragile egos made it impossible for any one person to do their job to the best of their ability. More than once was shocked and discouraged by internal communication between teams, whether on Slack or via email.

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