A company with a bright future has totally lost its vision - Marketing Zola Employee Review

2.0
8 Oct 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Some really great people work there - Sometimes we had cake

Cons

- Management changes their core business plan every other year - Recurrent layoffs (3 in 3 years) followed by restructuring followed by hiring without much thought. Just seems like a boat with a hole in the bottom that they keep having to bail out. - Not a lot of internal movement. Especially because they tend to lay folks off at the same experience level every time. - Micromanagement - Upper management is so attached/possessive of the business that they don't know how to be hands off. Not willing to listen to new ideas or take risks. Make decision based on their "gut" or experience, but doesn't seem to be very data driven. - Penny pinchers - management sacrificed a lot of core culture and joy when the numbers started failing. Also delayed yearly comp raises due to layoffs. - Company has lost its vision and its soul.

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5.0
2 Feb 2026
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Pros

Team and perks are really good

Cons

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4.0
4 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

I really enjoyed the culture and benefits while working at Zola. Every member of the team made themselves available for questions and help. There was never a time where I felt I couldn’t ask a supervisor a manager or team member for something and they would be annoyed or leave me hanging. Everyone is really so helpful.

Cons

The SNI agents ( mostly remote workers from the Philippines) cherry picked which tickets they wanted to tend to sometimes they took to the more simpler tickets to keep their numbers up and reroute it the more intricate tickets back into the queue. Management was very good about calling this out when we complained about it and sent out several announcements request requesting that this and requested that everyone take responsibility for the tickets that are routed to them. Unfortunately, my contract was not renewed because the company employed bots for our roles. I felt that this was greedy and disingenuous, but I do understand that majority of companies are moving in this direction for entry-level position positions.

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