comiXology Reviews

2.8

29% would recommend to a friend

(24 total reviews)
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David Steinberger

32% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

comiXology has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 24 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The comiXology employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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24 reviews
2.0
11 Sept 2015

Need a lot of work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

+ You're part of Amazon so assuming you do a decent enough job you'll have job stability + Free comics for the most part (though they started cutting back on this as I was leaving) + A few good people left but they're all super over it.

Cons

- Employee exodus: Post-acquisition, just about every good employee has left. VP of Product, Director of Marketing, Finance, Engineers, Editors, etc. There is a mass exodus from every department now that most people got their Amazon RSUs - A rudder less boat: There is little direction for the future of the business beyond "selling more comics". This leads to rushes in the Digital Editors to edit more comics that don't actually make money compared to the Marvel and DC comics they already edit - Management+Culture: The executives that are left seem to have blinders on. They treat the remaining employees as if they're disposable. This creates a really bad culture, and though they're trying to be better, their efforts are falling flat. Then, when they give HR impossible goals like "Recruit 6 new employees a month to make the year end goal", it's HR's fault for not being able to close good talent when management refuses to acknowledge that maybe their management, culture, and interviewers alert potential candidates that they need to run for the hills and join one of the many other companies in NYC. - Not a fun environment: You'd think selling comics would make the place fun. It's not. No free lunches, snacks are from a vending machine you have to pay for. Only free drinks are water and coffee. We have fruit that's rarely stocked.

1.0
9 Dec 2015

Structurally Unsound

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are some very smart, passionate people within the staff - though most of them are at their wits end. If you like comics you can spend your time at work talking about them. Bagels on Wednesdays, and sometimes there are office outings to new superhero movies.

Cons

The company drifts like an aimless ship making sudden jerky movements this way and that as the leadership team reactively finds something new to focus on and reliably changes course before anything constructive can be created. Some top level positions are filled not based on merit, but on cronyism and nepotism of the highest order. Many a passionate employee has joined the team only to be crushed under the relentless myopia the company's decision making suffers from. Innovation and going above and beyond your job description tends to not be worth it for most employees as they will only be setting themselves up for negative consequences if those extracurricular goals are not achieved, and they often wont be. Resources and assets aren't so much stretched thin as they are misappropriated. Meaningful change to the product or tools comes about extremely slowly, if at all, while the leadership passive aggressively complains about the company's short comings out of one side of their mouth while celebrating the most unimportant and ineffective of changes with the other. Decisions come not from data or thoroughly planned methodology, but seem to come out of personal opinions of the people in charge. When a good idea is finally dragged out of the day to day chaos, it tends to be swiftly abandoned without post-mortem or even a real effort to make any true success. Minimum Viable Product is the name of the game, and "Minimum" is up for debate. All of the best employees on the staff have already left or are spending most of their time fantasizing about doing so.

1.0
13 July 2016

Tech

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Honestly can not think of many.

Cons

Management is terrible. No clear vision. Avoid.

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