Underpaid and overworked - Anonymous employee Scribd Inc. Employee Review

1.0
Jun 17, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some people here are honestly smart and willing to speak up when management introduces dumb policies Good benefits too, I guess, but the compensation for anyone below senior is garbage

Cons

Overall management is horrible. My manager put his name on documentation that our team wrote to make it look like he was doing work. According to him, he needed to increase his influence at the company We spent hours of the team’s time crowdsourcing tech docs and other things for tickets that our manager assigned to himself, holding up projects for WEEKS. Obviously he blamed the team for the slow progress too I was constantly told that my manager was looking into issues that I brought up, only to have nothing come out of it months later. When I escalated, my manager gave me an earful and told me things should have stayed between us Everything from your career progression is self serve, because your manager will be too busy brown nosing to be paying attention to work you’ve been doing. 1 on 1 time with my manager was basically me asking questions for 5-10 minutes and my manager rambling and complaining for 45. Pretty funny because he also attacked other teams without prompting Sadly everything I’ve listed is the norm here, and if you’re one of the lucky few that have a good manager, then your stay might be tolerable

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Cons

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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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