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      2.4

      13% would recommend to a friend

      (303 total reviews)
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      Tom Gardner

      22% approve of CEO

      12% positive business outlook

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      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.2

      Compensation and benefits

      3.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.2

      Culture & values

      2.1

      Career opportunities

      1.8

      Senior management

      The Motley Fool has an employee rating of 2.4 out of 5 stars, based on 303 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The The Motley Fool employee rating is 35% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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      303 reviews
      1.0
      Jun 11, 2025

      Sort by most recent and pinpoint the downfall

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      People outside of leadership are some of the best you will work with.

      Cons

      No one in senior leadership has the guts and/or competence to tell the emperor he has no clothes. No one outside of leadership has any idea what’s going on. After barely avoiding going all in on “web3” and crypto only because no one was competent enough to deliver, now they’ve truly gone all in on AI, replacing decades of customer goodwill built up by the unique voice of the founders and analysts with… garbage.

      1.0
      Jun 11, 2025

      No longer the great company it once was

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      - Remote first, no RTO - Varies by team, but generally flexible schedules - Many nice smart people, although they are exiting en masse at high rates since 2023

      Cons

      - The company is entitled to make the decision to shift to a contractor-led workforce, but this is a key reason why long-time Fools are leaving. We want decision makers with skin in the game who trust us to do our jobs. This is not the case anymore - AI-generated investing content has not been proven to be successful enough or future-proofed enough for it to make up a vast majority of the company's investment coverage in the near term

      3.0
      May 13, 2025

      I loved this company

      Editor
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      Pros

      The employees are incredible humans. This company has consistently hired the best people: passionate, creative, motivated, hard-working, and a joy to be around. And they attracted these folks by embracing a people-first culture that was not only wildly humane compared to most tech and finance companies, but fostered creativity, growth, and innovation. I felt like I'd been asked to join a really wonderful think tank that was genuinely looking to make the world "smarter, happier, and richer." It would be years before I realized that culture was eroding into something not toxic, but much more standard for Wall Street.

      Cons

      The company has a habit of diving headfirst into new technology in an effort not to be "left behind"... without doing due diligence about the true value or ethics of that technology. See cryptocurrency and AI. It doesn't matter that both are ethically bankrupt (bad for the environment, based on the theft of intellectual property, etc.), nor that the true value of both is dubious (see Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett's comments on crypto, and the smoke and mirrors that makes up Sam Altman's promises to investors). The leadership team was practically desperate to embrace these technologies before the competition could. This contributed to the erosion of the positive company culture into something absolutely horrible for morale.

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