Patch reviews

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.

Demonstrated nepotism despite, for instance, an employee exhibiting similar occupational flaws to another employee and without consideration for uneven playing field (i.e. one writer's workload or "beat" is more disadvantaged than another). Management will throw reporters under the bus to save their own skin. Lack of constructive communication. Thanklessness from management. No guidance. Ample overtime committed and workload increase without salary to substantiate (i.e. management will assign more work than a position contractually demands, without negotiation). This results in often-seen, severely diminished work/life balance.