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
1.0
Nov 4, 2017

Writer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free food; ability to work (like a horse) at home.

Cons

The constant turnover and as another put it "so many new faces in the offices" is indicative. The pay is awful and is not a living wage. Very high turnover.

2.0
Oct 11, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Casual atmosphere, lots of natural lighting generated from the numerous, large windows lining the walls.

Cons

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.

1.0
Aug 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get a MacBook you can bring home to use. Office has tons of windows. Lots of natural light gets in. People are friendly. As long as you make your sales goals no one bothers you. If you need a job and you have half a brain, you can get hired. If you're an ok sales person you can make decent money.

Cons

It's a junior varsity environment on the inside sales team. You will be forced to listen to uneducated people speak frequently. Lots of unnecessary meetings that always end with an insincere compliment game. The main sales tactic used is: "if I put you in touch with my manager to make this happen, will you move forward today?" Then you will spend a lot of time convincing clients not to cancel and threatening them with the cancellation fee and 3rd party collections. Also, all sales leads are distributed based on favoritism, it shouldn't take very long to figure that out. You'll notice some people rarely make calls but always make goal. It's because the best leads are being spoon fed to them.

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