HIPR reviews

As mentioned in the pros section, I think what we do at Hudson is important. I wish I could be prouder of the work we do, though, because the work environment here is borderline toxic and quite frankly at this point the company feels like it's being held together with duck tape and desperation. Where to start with the cons? I think most of the bad about working here has to come from management or the lack thereof. Management is inconsistent in communication and overall transparency; lots of things just aren't covered in training and you have to go out of your way to ask management for basic details on important stuff like how bonuses/new systems/etc work. Honestly I'm not entirely sure that upper management even knows what most of the employees here do, as they keep arbitrarily pushing changes, updates, and new systems that are meant to 'streamline' things but actually make everything harder because of a fundamental lack of understanding of what would actually help people in doing their jobs. The pay and benefits are low for the amount of work we do. The base pay is advertised as a range which is much higher than the actual base pay, and to reach the advertised amounts one is expected to take on boost projects and/or do extra work. The way the bonus system for is structured also incentivizes turning in higher quantities of low quality work, which ultimately does not benefit the clients and their cases. Considering the company literally could not function without the writers and team leads, you would think that management would try to compensate people better. However... ... turnover is extremely high, probably because of the tough working conditions and lack of support from management, which leads to everyone constantly being burned out and leaving. Also, instead of addressing the underlying issues causing such high turnover, management outsources work to contract writers who aren't trained or able to receive the benefits of full-time employees, which feels kind of sketchy and also saddles editors/team leads with a lot of extra projects of variable quality to deal with, meaning the choice is between working overtime or turning in lower quality work, which again does not benefit the clients in the long run. There's probably a lot more that I could mention, but this is already quite lengthy. So for the sake of brevity, really the cons all boil down to management being shortsighted, capricious, and unwilling to compromise with or compensate employees fairly for their work.

Management is an absolute nightmare. They frequently enact harebrained and convoluted new policies or systems without informing anyone, so the place is a constant circus. Furthermore, management/HR completely mislead new (and existing!) employees about their rate of pay, how they are meant to be paid (salary versus hourly wage), the nature of their expected productivity, etc., and act like forcing their employees to take on extra work ("bonus projects") because their base salaries are literally too low to survive independently anywhere in the United States is a privilege rather than a complete insult. They also claim that they evaluate new hires' starting rate of pay on an individual basis in regards to experience, education, etc., but THIS IS NOT TRUE: everyone I've spoken to (myself included) has started at the same rate of pay (the absolute lowest amount indicated by their scale of beginning pay on job listings), regardless of years of relevant experience, advanced degrees, etc. Management is like a comic book villain, often micromanaging lower employees to the point that they intimidate/terrify them, and have recently gone so far as to knee-jerk fire two long-standing and respected employees, seemingly due to their justified criticisms of yet another harebrained system enacted with nobody's prior knowledge. Finally, they have recently begun using a secondary company to outsource full time employees' work to contractors, thus diluting the value of the bonus projects that many people rely on in order to make a living wage, while also relegating the worst/most difficult projects to the full timers. TL;DR: management manipulates new hires (frequently new grads trying to break into the industry) into taking a pitiful salary and insufficient benefits, frequently and without warning changes working conditions and working systems (almost always for the worse), has absolutely no regard for employees' mental health/work-life balance, and sees every single employee as disposable. Don't believe a single positive review.