Scribd Inc. reviews

3.0

44% would recommend to a friend

(112 total reviews)
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Tony Grimminck

45% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Scribd Inc. has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 112 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Scribd Inc. employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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112 reviews
5.0
Feb 11, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Over the recent years, Scribd has undergone a transformation, evolving into an organization with a strong customer focus, strategic clarity, and an elevated standard for employee excellence. This shift can largely be attributed to a strategic change in leadership, where experienced leaders have been instrumental in guiding the company into its next stage of growth. My experience at Scribd has been exceptionally positive. The company fosters a culture where results-driven individuals and those who take pride in their work are recognized and rewarded. Scribd is also committed to maintaining profitability without compromising on employee care. The benefits are comprehensive, and the HR team is continually seeking ways to enhance it. During my tenure, I've witnessed the expansion of various allowances, the addition of extra holidays, and the launch of new training and development programs accessible to all employees. Scribd is not a place for those looking to merely get by. It is a dynamic environment where motivated people are encouraged to excel, learn from peers, and make a meaningful impact. If you're eager to work and learn alongside talented people, and be challenged in order to achieve career growth, Scribd is the right place for you.

Cons

Sometimes it can be challenging to foster shared motivation when there are some areas of the company that feel disconnected from the strategy. Continuing to drive alignment and focus across the company will help with this.

4.0
Mar 24, 2022

Great Company

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Awesome people They are working hard to make it a great place to work

Cons

Confused upper management Unable to get a handle on attrition

2.0
Apr 2, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great core product - Creative environment - Smart people

Cons

-Terrible management--decisions are made regularly that are at odds with what would be best for the company and employees -Needs more board oversight - Lack of focus on goals--ideas are abandoned too quickly, strategy shifts too often

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Scribd Inc. Response
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Although this review was written several years ago, I feel it is important to respond for people who are reading this now and are wondering what it says about Scribd. (Note: I left the same response on the prior review, as the review is almost identical). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ While I don't know who wrote this, I am not surprised that someone who worked at Scribd in 2011 would have written this. At that time, Scribd was struggling to find a viable product and business model. As we tried different ideas looking for the future of Scribd, our strategy changed frequently, leading to turmoil and confusion internally. Products were launched, then yanked from the marketplace when they didn't perform. Not surprisingly, we lost several good people, one of whom may have written this review. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As one of Scribd's co-founders, I take personal responsibility for the clumsy way we handled this time in Scribd's history, and I do not blame people who were there for their harsh criticism, which is warranted. Pivoting a 50 person company is a difficult task for any management team, but that is no excuse: we could have done it better and have learned a lot from our mistakes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What I can say is that not long after this review was written, Scribd found its true vision: a scalable model that would power our business profitably ever after, a product consumers love, and a mission which we can all be genuinely excited to work on. Since we began building "The World's Digital Library" over two years ago, our strategy has not changed once, and the company is infinitely more stable and enjoyable to work for. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I sincerely believe that if this individual had stayed around to see Scribd pull out of its rough time period and into its current renassaisance, they would tell you the same thing. It is our loss that they left before they had a chance to see the turnaround. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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