Zippia Reviews

4.3

83% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)

85% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
1.0
5 Sept 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not a lot of oversight or management. Freedom to experiment. Offered a 401k (but no insurance).

Cons

After a year of great work (when I was expecting a raise) and working 45 hours (expected/encouraged), the CEO decided the OT cost too much and said he was lowering my pay rate — and then asked me to work 50 hours to equal my original salary. Yes, more work and less pay. I said this didn't seem right, he said "startups usually demand extra work and it's 'the culture,' and if I didn't like it maybe it wasn't a good fit." So I quit and got a job making almost twice as much with benefits and real structure. Since I left, the co-founder has changed my name on multiple high-performing bylines to his own name — I'm still cited on the sites that quote/link to them. As for the rest of the content, it's almost all BS stuff that's churned out as clickbait. No effort at real accuracy, just content farming to try to drum up backlinks. The product itself is garbage, just scrapes job listings from other sites with little to no accuracy as far as the "AI-based" career matching... I was matched with 53 truck driving jobs and two writing internships. Arbitrarily let go three employees while I was there... kept interns on hand for extended periods of time with no actual learning, just worked them hard and paid them less (for six months) until they wanted to cut costs. Look at the other reviews... four within a week with 5 stars — can you really trust that? No room to advance, no pay increases, no equity, no professional development, no coaching.

5.0
26 Apr 2019

Exciting Series A Startup

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Constantly getting to learn new, cutting edge growth strategies - Working with dedicated, nose to the grindstone people - Fun collaborative environment

Cons

- Priorities change constantly as the strategy shifts and updates

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