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Thrive Global

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Thrive Global reviews

3.0

42% would recommend to a friend

(94 total reviews)
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Arianna Huffington

46% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Work/Life balance

3.0

Culture & values

3.0

Career opportunities

2.9

Diversity & inclusion

2.7

Senior management

Thrive Global has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 94 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Thrive Global employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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94 reviews
2.0
May 24, 2021

Chaos

Product and engineering group
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is pretty good and reasonable benefits. The mission is great - if the company can figure out how to deliver on it. Despite leaving a pretty negative review, I want this company to succeed on its merits, because if it does that means it is helping people.

Cons

Thrive is incredibly disorganized, to the extent that it is really hard to explain. I have not ever experienced the complete lack of planning and organization like this in my career. There is no vision from the top for the product. Senior suite focuses on minutiae like copy editing while we have no clear product roadmap. To the extent that planning exists, it tends to get thrown away and started over every few months. There is a constant promise that things will improve in a few months and somehow "this time will be different", but the chaos always continues. Turnover is the highest I've seen in my career. Senior management is frequently fired or leaves. There is very little continuity. It is a constant firefight to try and catch all the balls that were dropped from the last departure. Problems fester until they blow up because no one can consistently own anything due to all of the turnover. Because of all of the above, the product is poor. MVPs are shipped and never improved. Lots of work is thrown away or re-done 6 months later.

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Thrive Global Response
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Thank you for these comments. At Thrive, we set priorities based on what’s best for our product and what we hear from our customers. The story we tell and the words we use are not minutiae — they are fundamental to the user experience and what differentiates us from other products. We are not alone in this. At some of the top companies in the world who we are partnering with, the narrative is driving the product needs. We believe in sharing concerns and ideas with compassionate directness, so we are always open to hearing ideas about how we might use time more productively and deliver on a mission that is more relevant than ever.
1.0
Mar 30, 2020

Toxic startup culture, company contradicts its own mission statement.

Product
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Friendly lower level staff -Free meals once a week and in-house massages -Okay benefits not the best -Pay can be good depending how you negotiate

Cons

CEO and execs create a toxic work culture for every lower level employee. There is a sense of urgency for every single thing at this company. We still don't know the reasoning behind this concept. There is no planning or production everything is emotional and chaotic. Employees have to report into their mangers hourly. Reporting what work they have done within the hour. Micromanaging and no trust is huge issue at thrive. High turnover, most lower level employees can only work for about 2-4 months before they are burnt out and are forced to quit. thrive considers themselves a technology company yet there is no technology that they are developing. It's a media company, Internally it is complete chaos. There isn't a proper HR department to help with the many issues. HR is extremely unqualified to deal with bully/toxic executives. No diversity at this company. It shows in the content as well. If we really want to stop burnout culture it should be for everyone not just white people.

1.0
Oct 4, 2022

Tyrannical Led & Toxic

Sales executive
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nothing at all ..... nothing at all.

Cons

I have worked with some of the largest organization's and this "company" led by their "Celebrity" tyrannical CEO is the most toxic, reactive & incompetent organization I have ever been a part of. For a company interested in wellbeing, they are the most burned out, toxic and uncaring people I've ever been associated with. From the top down and the "YES" robots the CEO surrounds herself with, incompetence reigns. Unqualified and incompetent "leaders" attempting to evangelize the "science" of their product (which is vaporware and laughable). If you ask questions - you will be fired. If a client doesn't renew because they figured out that Thrive is vapor ware with no substance - CS will be fired. If you are not available 24/7 including weekends, weddings, being on your deathbed etc. - you will be fired. They will find any excuse not to look at the inherent issue, and find someone to blame. For a place so concerned about wellbeing and preventing burnout they are extremely proficient at doing exactly the opposite. As a rebuttal to this they will add their stock answer around "the true science of the product, science backed" etc. Do your research into the product as well as their leadership before seriously considering this as your next move.

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