If you want to be disrespected at every level, work here - Anonymous employee Scribd Inc. Employee Review

1.0
Jan 28, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits; allows remote work

Cons

Upper management is opaque, disingenuous, and disorganized. My team was "restructured" several times with little explanation, throwing everything into chaos, everyone waiting for someone else to take responsibility. More and more was demanded of me and my team with less and less recognition, and even less regard for bandwidth and burnout. Management is eager to take credit when things go well, and quick to point the finger when things don't. Responds to burnout by basically saying "suck it up." Individual contributors and middle managers slave away while upper management basically twiddles their thumbs. Execs talk a big game about "wellbeing" and "shared values" and "psychological safety" then do mass layoffs right before the holidays without any warning or explanation.

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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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