Huge emphasis on the 3 P's- profit, pricing, and paying as little as possible. - Anonymous employee Internet Brands Employee Review

1.0
Apr 6, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Only positive thing about this company is the people. They hired great talent, which unfortunately don't last very long. They get snatched up elsewhere. They allowed the company they bought, which was the one I worked for, to keep some of our perks and benefits which is nice because Internet Brands has crap benefits and culture.

Cons

Oh where do I begin. For starters, they issued a statement during Covid-19 that there's no work week. Meaning you need to work around the clock, including weekends and vacations. They kept pushing for people to return to office as cases were increasing. When I asked about professional development, they told me to look for free classes. When I asked if there's funds available, they said yes but it's PREFERRED that we go to free sources first. Meaning you ain't getting it. When I asked about what I needed to do to get promoted, I got the runaround for 3 years. I kept working harder, longer hours, and had no life outside of work. I did everything they asked and more. Still, I was considered an underperformer. They want more with less money. I never got a penny for any projects I worked out. I had to learn new skills to get the job done, which is their MO. Get employees so fed up that they teach themselves and save them a pretty penny.

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Cons

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Pros

Senior AI leadership was a strength. The work was interesting, the projects were meaningful, and analysts were given room to experiment with AI systems, automation, and internal tooling. Leadership appeared to understand the strategic value of AI and created opportunities for analysts to build.

Cons

My experience with the AI analyst team was substantially worse. The team was largely early-career, and the culture was insular, political, and weak at direct communication. Concerns that could have been addressed through ordinary professional feedback were instead discussed among coworkers and escalated through management channels without first being raised with the person involved. In practice, informal alliances and interpersonal perception appeared to carry more weight than transparent feedback or demonstrated work. I also observed frequent private criticism of management, compensation, coworkers, and hiring decisions from people who remained outwardly cordial with the same individuals they criticized. That made it difficult to distinguish genuine professional relationships from surface-level ones. The team’s technical maturity was uneven. Some analysts were capable and thoughtful, but I also saw credentialism, textbook reasoning, and confidence that exceeded practical experience. Employees entering this team should not assume that coworkers will communicate concerns directly, represent them fairly when absent, or evaluate disagreements strictly on the merits of the work. Prospective employees should separate the AI opportunity from the analyst team culture. The work can be interesting, and senior leadership can provide real opportunity, but this is not a team I would enter casually. Document important interactions, ask for feedback directly, keep boundaries clear, and do not assume silence means alignment. In this environment, concerns may matter most when they are not being raised to you directly. I would consider working for the right leader at Internet Brands again. I would not work with this analyst team again. The pattern was too much backchanneling, too little candor, and too many people acting differently in private than they did in public.

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