Best Company Ever - Anonymous employee Scribd Inc. Employee Review

5.0
Dec 4, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

After years of corporate abuse, I just assumed being employed meant varying levels of hating yourself, your job, and others, but I could not have been more wrong. Scribd employs some of the best, most generous, most encouraging, and most helpful people I have ever known or had the pleasure to work with. They not only want our customers to be happy, but they want every employee to be happy too. They have an excellent training and mentorship program, and they talk about career development sincerely from day one. Management is always on the lookout for ways to help you grow and develop your skills. They are engaging and inclusive. Even during the pandemic, they have done everything they could to make people feel connected, including monthly fireside chats from leadership, zoom team meetings, games, book clubs, guest lectures and lessons, breakout sessions, and even company-wide team-building events. They genuinely care about employee engagement and feedback, and they are always looking out for proper work/life balance. I have never felt so supported, appreciated, or cared for. My goal has become to find new ways to be an asset to this company.

Cons

I honestly can't think of any cons to working for Scribd. This is literally my favorite place to have ever worked, and if there was something that needed improving, leadership is open enough to listen and take in that feedback.

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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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