Improving in all aspects as time goes by - Anonymous employee Scribd Inc. Employee Review

4.0
Oct 12, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great coworkers - Interesting projects and lots to learn - Increased amount of collaboration across teams since I first started when the process was very waterfall. Now engineers and designers talk to each other more and include any other related teams earlier in projects so there are less surprises. - Constant improvement and willing to improve processes in place. The company operates very differently from when I first started. - The office coordinators do their best to provide awesome company events - Free meals every day and other benefits - Executive team is reliable enough that I trust them even if I don't trust the CEO. He at least seems to hire the right people who are experienced and know what they're doing.

Cons

- Work life balance isn't ideal sometimes. When a team is small, the pressure is always on. I'm surprised people are not more burnt out. - Lots of debt because of trying to meet deadlines of pushing out new features all the time. - Very rarely does a feature get to be improved on more than once without a time lag of at least a year. Some features don't get touched in years even if it's essential to the product.

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5.0
Nov 12, 2025
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Pros

good culture, great work and highly recommended, remote first

Cons

no annual stock grants or refereshers. It is once in two year thing.

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5.0
Aug 18, 2025
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Pros

- Competitive Salary & Benefits for a tech company of its size. - A great people team that truly actually tries to make the company a more fun and supportive place to work. - Fun offsites / onsites for team building. - Solid work-life balance, generally flexible. - Bonus structure (if you qualify) is very generous. - Work feels meaningful, you get to work on a product that helps people learn and develop every day. - Lots of internal promotions (depending on your team) - The work really never gets boring, it is fast-paced but not chaotic, like some earlier stage startups can be. Scribd has been around for awhile and is well-structured internally. - Not reliant on funding any longer which takes off a lot of stress.

Cons

- The audiobook space is tough to crack, and a lot of effort has gone into projects that haven’t quite materialized. - User acquisition is very reliant on SEO, which results in volatility often out of anyone’s control. - There could be more transparency on when people leave or get let go, often times you don’t know someone is gone until you go to message them and they are de-activated. - The annual raises could use some flexibility, 2% doesn’t keep up with inflation these days. - Growth has been lagging, which can put a lot of stress on everyone.

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