WebMD Health reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(1,052 total reviews)

Robert N. Brisco

56% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

WebMD Health has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,052 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WebMD Health 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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1K reviews
3.0
Apr 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good coworkers at the local levels. Good products and mission to help people in their own healthcare.

Cons

distant East coast management is not able to connect with west coast workers/way of life.

4.0
Apr 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great hours, family-friendly. Working from home is normal. Late nights are extremely rare. There are a lot of smart people. Good health benefits, 401-K matching, and vacation. I worked in professional promotions, in the Worldwide Plaza offices, which is fire-walled from both CME and the Medscape/content creation side. This is a 3rd party advertorial shop. The technology and in particular digital subscriber list is what the company is selling-- not content.

Cons

For creatives, particularly if you are coming from an agency as a copy or medical affairs person, the hours are great, but there is little to no opportunity to actually make an impact on the brands you're working with. For a writer or designer, this can be frustrating. There is a LOT of cutting and pasting of agency-created content into templates. The real creative work at a company like this is in product development, which takes place elsewhere. Also, the stock price is at the heart of everything. Management has been known to "purge" more senior, higher paid folks, and then bring in recent college grads after 6-months or so. However, if you're good with your boss, you will be spared, generally. Don't expect big raises. Just plug away and don't make too many enemies. There is not much urgency to the work. Not a great place to gain digital experience, surprisingly, since so much of what you learn is applicable only to WebMD, not elsewhere.

1.0
Mar 11, 2016

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Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are isolated pockets of good management.

Cons

This review is to alert people that most employees are posting reviews of Medscape to the WebMD site, which is the parent company. This can be confusing, but those reviews will give a more complete sense of the dismal state of Medscape and WebMD.

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