Patch reviews

3.2

42% would recommend to a friend

(254 total reviews)

Warren St. John

57% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Patch has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 254 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Patch employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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254 reviews
2.0
Mar 21, 2022

A lot of work and not a lot of compensation

Anonymous employee
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Business Outlook

Pros

good people to work with

Cons

don't pay their employees enough and expect a ton of extra work

4.0
Apr 25, 2021

Lots of promise

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They pay better than your average local daily, the local teams care about the work you do, if you love being a reporter this job has huge possibly

Cons

Management is constantly changing their approach, so they may have a big push and change it just a month or two in, before you have a chance to put it to practice, they tend to be very in love with themselves and gush about how amazing the company is, but they don't really seem to understand all the work that goes into it. No 401k match, lots of lip service about mental health and diversity, but little understanding about how to enact a culture that appreciates and cultivates both

2.0
Jul 3, 2017

It's all about generating clicks

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Ability to work from home Flexible hours

Cons

Long hours (gotta reach your page view goals for the day) Pressure to increase page views Each month, the page views goal increase. While they say the page view count doesn't matter, but you get chewed out if you don't hit your numbers. Pressure to create content for "content partner" and to drive traffic to their sites. It's more of a content farm and aggregator site than a real reporting job.

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