GIPHY Reviews

4.2

81% would recommend to a friend

(39 total reviews)

64% positive business outlook

GIPHY has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 39 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The GIPHY 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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39 reviews
1.0
30 Oct 2019

Don’t fall for Fake Reviews

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Beautiful office space. It’s everything and more than what you could expect for a startup. It’s a great learning environment for anyone starting out in the career and are new to the startup world. There’s free catered lunch daily, pets are allowed, happy hour, all that good stuff is probably why most people stay and not do work anyways.

Cons

There are definitely lots of fake reviews. LOL. The work environment and older employees make it almost impossible to have a welcoming. They’re very insincere. It's very cliquey and some employees are snooty af. Your typical white high school environment. The company says they are transparent but they’re really not. There’s always some sort of budgeting issues but the company spends excessively on snacks & food + inefficient employees. My advice is to really suck up to the bosses, hang around when they do happy hours outside the office and just play the game to be on their good side. They pretend it’s not political but they are 100% political. Some of these people got their jobs because they were friends with the CEO or knew other employees at the company. It’s ridiculous! I expected a lot more from this company when I was interviewing but it’s too late for me now. Run!!!

3.0
1 Aug 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- relaxed culture and lots of lifestyle perks (free food, drinks, etc) - subject matter is fun! - you can bring your dog to work - lots of cross team mobility - you can travel to LA to work if you know the right people

Cons

- cliquey culture. most of the least useful employees are old friends who have known each other for a long time, go on vacation together, etc. they are also the ones who are the least helpful and wasteful. unfortunately you cant avoid working with them and they are usually your boss. or are friends with the ceo. - bloated management and mid-tier - too many meetings. how do you get any work done during business hours? - process heavy but with poor results; product cycles are really slow and tho they want to be an agile shop, it doesnt feel like it. - touts transparency but that's not really the case.

1.0
12 Feb 2020

Warning - They ask people to post positive reviews...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- GIFs are fun - free lunch - cool office space - dogs allowed

Cons

- CEO does all hands talking about going out of business and running out of money - none of the executives like each other (new vs. old) - very cliquey - too many meetings - lack of experience from department leads but in the post they because of legacy relationships - new vs. old employee issues

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