Used To Be A Great Place To Work. Now, Hard Pass. - Anonymous employee CareerBuilder Employee Review

1.0
12 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

None. CareerBuilder used to be great. There are still some great people but this is a sinking ship with toxic leadership.

Cons

The company culture is what made CareerBuilder great and valued. It was never the salary as most know, CareerBuilder pays below industry standard which even leaders will admit to when pressed. But everyone loved it because the culture and the people were amazing. I still keep in contact with people from the office and honestly have nothing but great things to say about them. However, since the Apollo acquisition, everything went downhill. There is zero transparency, disciplined freedom is long gone, the culture is horrible with everyone in fear, taking away all of the fringe perks one by one, I believe they are on their 4th round of lay offs and firing people left and right, promotion freezes, etc. And today, after making the employees wait an extra 4 months past year end, they announced merit raises to the tune of 0-2% with most getting 1%. Way to say thanks to the good performers you have left and are overworking. It is appalling how they are treating people. Let me clear. I am not writing this to bash CB. I want people to understand that CB's legacy employees and Matt are no longer running the show here. Irena and the other Apollo leadership brought in are and it is just not what it once was. I very much enjoyed my years spent with the company before the sale. It was just time to find a better job with better leadership and stability.

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