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
Apr 10, 2014

Work dried up too quickly

Recommend
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Pros

Flexible schedule, decent freelancing rates, editors are reasonable and easy to work with good for early career exposure, excellent place to start a journalistic career

Cons

Too many freelancers and not enough work, inconsistent, those who do become editors work an insane amount (80+ hour weeks), company is not doing well

2.0
Apr 4, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

For journalism, the money was good, and the benefits were even better. The working environment was great with plenty of fellow editors within local regions and states working together. Opportunities abounded to experiment or jump into a local big story feet first.

Cons

There were never enough sales people to make it a success, and the marketing was left strictly to the local editors for far too long. Lack of revenue from many sites led to a change from hyperlocal emphasis to whatever posts could draw the most page views, even if they weren't local or even regional. Tons of vacation days and holidays "available" with seemingly no time to take them off.

4.0
Mar 29, 2014

It was a great place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You gain great experience, work from home, editors are generally appreciated by readers and community members

Cons

it was a lot of work, various requirements that sometimes seemed pointless, being on call at all hours for breaking news in your area, difficult platform to post stories littered with technical bugs

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