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      Leaf Group

      Part of Graham Holdings

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      Leaf Group reviews

      3.7

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (398 total reviews)
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      Sean Moriarty

      72% approve of CEO

      43% positive business outlook

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      Leaf Group has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 398 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Leaf Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      398 reviews
      3.0
      Mar 6, 2017

      Proceed With Caution

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      Pros

      Some of the people at Leaf have been amazing, supportive and facilitate amazing professional growth opportunities. Jess Barron on the Livestrong team demonstrates good leadership - she knows the brand and is willing to stick up for what the right decision is, even when it is difficult.

      Cons

      STAY AWAY FROM THE EHOW TEAM! The eHow team and verticals are like riding a bike up a steep hill and leadership keeps frantically switching gears with no long term plan and all your teammates are screaming at you. It's a hostile work environment and leadership is making decisions for their own personal gain, not what is best for the company or the bottom line. They are also very deceptive about what their teams are doing and what their actual numbers are. When confronted with facts, they pick holes at everything so they don't have to acknowledge that what they are doing isn't working. The nepotism is also a problem. Meetings are like a family reunion. There are too many inexperienced managers leading teams and making decisions and there is a lot of favoritism within the departments.

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      Leaf Group Response
      9y
      We appreciate you taking the time to review and acknowledge that we have some amazing supportive team members here at Leaf. We would disagree that any of our work environments are hostile as that goes against who we stand for. As for management, we are always advocating growth from our team members, across the board. Our Glint survey responses are held in high regard and are just one of the tools we use to make ourselves better.
      2.0
      Dec 30, 2015

      Used to be a great place to work!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Food, nice office, dog friendly, stocked kitchen with great snacks, free lunch on Fridays, Pay to play, yoga in office, guest speakers, nice bathrooms,

      Cons

      Ever since Richard, founder, left, management has steadily let go too many talented people, and the company has been on a deep decline even more since new ceo, Sean took over. Poor moral, layoffs often. Promised turn around is NOT going to happen. I would avoid Demand Media completely at this point in time.

      3.0
      Dec 9, 2015

      Upside down pyramid

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      1. Great benefits 2. Used to be a good place to work at. 3. Used to have some really good engineers. I enjoyed working there until late 2014 and after that it was all downhill until I left in 2015. While I was there, the work life balance was great, I always felt appreciated and I was always motivated to give it my 100%. It does throw an insane holiday party and the weekly food catering didn't hurt one bit.

      Cons

      1. Turned into an upside down pyramid - there is a lot more management than actual workers. I am not sure how the company can turn around with a lot of ideas but not enough people to implement it? 2. A lot of undeserving people are being promoted and are leading teams. Without the requisite knowledge of the domain, how can someone be expected to lead the team? 3. The last few of the good engineers are leaving and hiring people to replace those is a tough job and in some cases no effort was made to replace at all. 4. The HR team is pretty weak - pretty incompetent and not very helpful.

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