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      3.2

      42% would recommend to a friend

      (254 total reviews)

      Warren St. John

      57% approve of CEO

      36% positive business outlook

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      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
      1.0
      Jan 29, 2018

      Horrible

      Local editor
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      Pros

      Work from home, and that's about it

      Cons

      Too many to list...awful management, zero communication, constant pressure to produce produce produce (hyperlocal news simply doesn't work that way), poor work life balance (I often worked 16 hour days/7day weeks--with no overtime paid-- and it was impossible to take vacation days or sick time), quantity matters more than quality (any decent journalist will not be able to stomach this concept), management employed harassing tactics to get your UV's up without giving you advice or support on how to do this, you had to find freelancers who would essentially work for free, high turnover, very immature and backstabbing colleagues ...the list goes on and on.

      2.0
      Oct 26, 2017

      Sloppily managed company with poor communication skills

      Editor
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The two stars are coming from the fact that this job is really flexible, which is great. It's nice to be able to work from home/be able to travel and work. I also really love the idea of hyperlocal reporting, but Patch often doesn't execute it well. The benefits were great. The writing is easy, but that's not much of a pro since it's mostly clickbait and didn't challenge me at all as a journalist (I didn't feel at all like a journalist when I was working here).

      Cons

      I have never worked somewhere with worse communication. You'd think the company would overcompensate with great comm. since everyone is working so far away from one another, but they just...don't. The most communication I'd get is a weekly call (sometimes) from my manager telling me what I did wrong that week. I'm all for constructive criticism, and take it seriously, but when you're NEVER told what's going right, or lauded for any kind of small achievement, you lose confidence that you're doing any kind of a good job. There needs to be a balance. I was routinely told that my stories weren't getting enough clicks—this is what the company is all about. Patch didn't care about quality, so long as you were churning stuff out like Buzzfeed. They made no attempt, although they claimed they did, to help me work on whatever it was that I was doing so wrong. Management is also very top-heavy for no reason. I'm really glad I was let go, because the job was a stressful, anxious half year for me.

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