Rumors are true - Anonymous employee Audible Employee Review

1.0
18 July 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Stock options, free lunch, complimentary Audible subscription account

Cons

No work life balance. Too much on call duties, as there is no separate support team for handling production issues, development team is responsible for both development and maintenance/support and its mandatory for a developer to perform oncall duties. With oncall duties its hard to plan any vacation. This place is full of h1b visa holders, they work 60 hours/week and if you don't do the same, it will be reflected in your annual performance reviews. Its very hard to move internally to other amazon offices because of politics.

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Pros

Audible is an Amazon company. I think as a whole, this company attracts people who are kind and fun spirited. Good product.

Cons

Disorganisation. Commute can be hard.

2.0
18 June 2026
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Pros

Your hours are very flexible as you just have to submit the first 15 minutes of the book by a certain date and then the final audiobook by a certain deadline.

Cons

This was a royalty share contract with no base pay and I only made about $70 total after many hours of work.

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