iSpot.tv reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(289 total reviews)
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Sean Muller

80% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

iSpot.tv has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 289 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The iSpot.tv employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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289 reviews
1.0
Dec 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are very few positives about iSpot, but the employees are good group of people and deserve better.

Cons

iSpot leadership consists of two men who are unwilling to accept any help or admit that their company is in a nose dive. New employees are recruited for their expertise and then relegated to roles beneath their experience level once they start working to improve the company. Tenured employees are put in charge of new initiatives & platforms they have no experience in, and are allowed to fail over and over while costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in subscription fees. Meanwhile, teams are forced to use substandard processes while better tools are languishing in purgatory, waiting for someone to figure out how to implement them. Tech teams are constantly being rushed from one new product to another, without ever fully completing the preceding rollout. Products are released half-baked with convoluted workarounds to achieve basic function. There's always a shiny new project to work on while ignoring critical tech debt. Sales and CS teams are always waiting for a new comp plan while constantly being re-orged into new teams. Commission payments are often late, incorrect, or both. The constant shuffling of teams and accounts prevents any meaningful progress with clients and causes further confusion with comp plans. Layoffs are frequent, and top sales performers are targeted to avoid paying out earned commissions. There is no DEI at iSpot, and one look at the C-Suite and Board will reinforce this. Reviewing their Linkedin posts, all of their leadership summits are primarily male and white. Overall, this is an extremely toxic environment to be in, and you will be swimming upstream from day one. Until there is massive changes made at the C-Level, do not expect this to improve.

2.0
Dec 15, 2022

The glass isn't half full, it is empty!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary and benefits are okay. The people are definitely what keep people here. Being with a growing company is exciting. The company pulled in $325M in funding to bet big in 2022. The company is making an effort to promote diversity and inclusion.

Cons

Dysfunctional upper management team. Lots of finger-pointing when things don't go right. Iterative design/development is looked at as a problem to be "fixed". The need to iterate is considered a failure and a problem of poor planning. The bonus plan only extends to the VP level and above. The "annual" salary review has never been performed the same way twice so the rules and expectations are never the same from year to year.

1.0
Aug 9, 2024

Chaotic at the top

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The strength of iSpot's products is generated solely by the independent strength of its workforce, not because of strong leadership.

Cons

The c-suite spend almost all their time catering to the whims of the CEO so they're rarely available. This also creates an "inner circle" that prevents good communication throughout the company and deprioritizes some workers. Independent thought is discouraged.

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