Worst company I have ever worked at. - Anonymous employee Gracenote Employee Review

1.0
8 Apr 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Zero. There is not one good thing about this company. Ok, decent chips selection, leftover from the legacy Gracenote days. Expect that to be cut soon too. If I could rate this company negative stars I would. I look at some of the positive reviews and I just want to laugh. Obviously forced by management to write, and the only people they could get to do this are low level IT-type guys who probably sit in some cubical and has no clue what's actually going on in the rest of the company. Seriously, if you join this company you will regret it, do your homework and ask around.

Cons

- Absolutely horrendous and clueless management. - Zero process, all chaos - No efficiency whatsoever. Expect to take the most frustrating route for every project you do. - General incompetence. - Management spends 90% of time with internal politics and in-fighting rather than actual work. - Management does not know a single thing about the products, markets, or competitors. And they are not willing to listen or learn. What a joke. - If you are smart, expect your output to be purposely and severely worsened, because clueless management butchers it up to make it seem like they are "contributing". - If you are smart and produce good work, you will not be appreciated at all, but instead threatened. - Nobody intelligent or significant wants to be at the company. They are either already out or on the way out. - First Sony wants to get rid of it, then Tribune wants to get rid of it. Except now it is even worse because everyone good left, and they lumped in all the worst parts of Tribune. It's basically the ugly stepchild that nobody wants. - 20% lower salary than market - No stock or equity comp. Well, you wouldn't want it anyway because it is worthless. - Horrible benefits.

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