500px Reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(58 total reviews)

Steven Dai

Not enough data to show CEO approval

41% positive business outlook

500px has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 58 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The 500px employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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58 reviews
1.0
30 May 2019

Terrible workplace and culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There is nothing good to write about recently. Once a good place, now it's terrible.

Cons

Looks like negative reviews are being suppressed. So much for hiding the truth. A lot of the negative reviews here are VERY accurate (and frankly give honest picture of the company). I am a woman, English is my second language and the the comment discrimination is bang on. The company doesn’t care about what employees feel. WFH, vacation etc don’t mean anything when culture is toxic. Backstabbing, judging people on their accents and micromanagement is rampant. GOT-esque vibe is accurate. I have not interviewed anyone but I won’t be surprised at this company’s shady practice to outsource problems to interviewing candidates, steal their ideas and reject them. Someone rightly wrote that the company is concerned with increasing ratings on Glassdoor. Whenever a few negative reviews are posted, Management and HR ask employees to flood positive reviews. The usual line of company that we move fast is so cliched. What the management doesn’t understand that a company can have great work culture and move fast, yet 500px excels in only one thing - move fast without any experimentation and not learn from the failures while not giving two hoots about culture. I laugh at the attempts to suppress negative voices and reviews. Truth always comes out. It’s getting terrible everyday. Attrition is high, people are overworked.

1.0
28 Jan 2018

“The writings been on the wall” - HR?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Hardworking and passionate coworkers who have spent countless hours developing ideas on how to help 500px succeed and become profitable

Cons

Poor leadership No direction Fake company values Useless leaders Dogs are annoying, loud and distracting. No one seems to be working when they’re around dogs. Maybe that’s why 500px is not profitable.

1.0
4 Nov 2016

A letter from a former Pixeler:

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people were the single best part of my work experience. They are all hungry, determined, creative, and fun! Other pros: Healthy lunches Great location Casual work environment

Cons

Well, where do I start? - Senior management is very cliquey and not as transparent as they say to be. There is obvious favouritism in the office offering others longer leashes to do what ever they please. - Leaders in the company have a track record of "performing" (partially evaluated/based on favouritism), but in most cases don't have the ability to actually lead a team - No product vision. Yes, you (senior management) were trying things out, but at least be transparent to the whole company what you think will work or not. You have some of the greatest minds in the company that can give you immediate feedback, don't waste it. - Decisions made by senior management are questionable and not explained very well, other than, "people are excited about it". WHICH PEOPLE?!?!

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500px Response
8y
Yikes. Thank you for the feedback, it is really detailed and thoughtful - it's definitely made me introspective and motivated to improve on transparency and involving more of the team in decisions. I am confident we've improved and grown since this review but will do more introspection to understand if both I and the company have done so. - Andy
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