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Spiceworks Ziff Davis

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Spiceworks Ziff Davis reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(249 total reviews)

Steve Horowitz

60% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Spiceworks Ziff Davis has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 249 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Spiceworks Ziff Davis employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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249 reviews
1.0
Jul 7, 2022

Avoid at all costs

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Pros

The coffee machine in the UK office was off the charts good. + Every company you work for after will be better.

Cons

The company mismanagement, corporate strategy and work culture that is allowed to permeate in this organisation is shocking. avoid at all costs. -Unsuccessful US business units that treat their staff with distain rule the roost. -Their figurehead CEO will brag "anyone can buy a business for a dollar and make 75 cents" whilst overseeing tanking revenue streams and profits. -Their parent company (J2 Global) will write blank cheques for unlimited M&A to ensure they pay the bear minimum in corporate income tax. This core strategy allows the most toxic "its you or me" culture. -Those responsible for M&A, will ignore due diligence, will take backhanders (feel free to google this) from the worst run companies that join the Ziff portfolio padding out revenue streams for the following few months before the collapse under the strain of the most rudderless-ly arrogant cringe worthy leadership The 40% margin $16 million business I left due to lack of support; continual bureaucratic roadblocks; awful mismanagement at the highest level will effectively cease to trade in it's core service in 2023. Ziff will blundered a combined 16 million dollar revenue stream in 2 years. But don't worry, they will simply buy another business in the market to compensate, downsize - rinse and repeat. The business culture is not to build revenue streams; create a great working culture or increase profit/ebitda organically it is to "grow through acquisition" in order to over-inflate share value. This strategy then dictates the work culture. Toxic. Avoid

2.0
Jun 10, 2022

Value your employees over your image.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Work from Anywhere - Willing to work with your schedule (if it works for them) - Your co-workers are truly collaborative and are always willing to help

Cons

Management appears to care about their image more than the actual work produced. Campaigns are constantly pushed back and management complains when they don't yield the results they want. There's also a culture of spending money on things that don't need to be spent on. I implore you to put that money into your loyal employees instead of incentives for clients. Cared for employees yield great results.

2.0
May 25, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Work from anywhere Good benefits Large organization backing

Cons

Can't get anything done without playing the politics game- everyone wants to be right rather than doing what's best for the company or client Low pay compared to the market and competitors Constantly trying to "fix" something that they've allowed to get broken Culture is not the best No growth opportunities

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