Pepperjam Reviews

3.4

62% would recommend to a friend

(63 total reviews)

Matt Gilbert

76% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Pepperjam has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 63 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pepperjam 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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63 reviews
1.0
1 June 2018

Company has gone from bad to worse

Anonymous employee
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Pros

At this point the only good thing at Pepperjam is its employees, however a con to this is that Pepperjam continues layoff exceptional talent

Cons

Since spinning off from eBay, it has been one terrible business decision after another. Poor decisions regarding acquisitions, leaders, etc. resulting in a continuous cycle instability and chaos. Leadership does not have the brand, clients, or employees best interest in mind. They focus of bottom line and how the investors can yield the highest return upon inevitable sale. Matt Gilbert is completely obsessed with his 30, 60, 90, etc. day plans that he has zero regard for the employees or clients. It is nauseating to receive company communications from him addressing everyone as “pepperfam,” as he has never bothered to learn employee names and can’t even acknowledge one saying, “good morning” to him. He is very unapproachable and is only “transparent” when confronted with specific questions. If you want to under achieve and work for pennies on the dollar, Pepperjam is probably a perfect fit. If you are ambitious and make the industry standard, you’ll likely be on the next list for layoffs.

1.0
29 Aug 2018

Your voice don't matter

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good variety of clients. Benefits are decent.

Cons

Zero stability. Company went through 3 rounds of layoffs within a year. Matt Gilbert is a joke. He straight up told people to leave if they aren't happy at Pepperjam. As a leader, it is your job to lead and inspire the team, not threaten and take away work/life balance. Employees welcomes transparency, not coersion. I can say for a lot of people within the company when I say you just killed employee moral and faith in the organization.

1.0
3 July 2018

Avoid!!!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I am not sure if there are any. The people used to make Pepperjam acceptable place to work. The employees who excelled and knew digital marketing either found another job or Pepperjam included them is a "reduction".

Cons

Where to start? Any leader that cared about employees and keeping the doors open at Pepperjam are long gone. The c-suite remaining at the beginning of 2018, looked out for themselves, were more interested in letting the staff know how great they are and don't know the meaning of human capital and are expendable. Matt Gilbert is unapproachable and had no interest in getting to know employees. His focus was on his 30/60/90 plan that maybe had a complected check on day 100. There were 4 "reductions in workforce" since 2016 and each had the same goal, different label and didn't achieve the goal. Work life balance isn't in the vocabulary of senior management. It is possible to be told you are putting in too many hours at 10am and later that day you are being reprimanded because a deliverable could have been done better. But to get your hopes up that you will get even an inter for help! There is no career pathing, you will not be rewarded for doing a good job and HR is a mirage.

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