Angi reviews

Where to begin....I worked on the service provider side with advertising, so this is all related to that side....the monthly goals are set up for someone to fail from the start, when certain things that are out of your control and have nothing to do with you, affect your paycheck, but the company just won't do anything about it. The company has their own agenda....all about the money. They are trying to sell based on a dream, since the product itself for service pros, just doesn't work, selling thousands and thousands of dollars in advertising, that has zero return on their investment, but again, the negative impact is thrown onto the individual, and the company takes all liability off themselves. It's no secret that Angie's List has been in trouble, but yet the company continues to act like everything is gold, and just does not admit that they there are problems. For companies that spend thousands a year, and they still provide a product that yields no return for most. They train with the idea of actually selling on belief vs selling on results. Almost every conversation with the pros is negative in tone, no results, no return...this is a daily constant, so if you enjoy getting yelled and cursed at for 8 hours a day, and not being able to do anything about it, then this is a perfect job for you. Their selling process has certain points where you just have to lie to sell it, the company knows it, and they're ok with it, in fact, they push it. The managers put very high stress, and threatening career behaviors into driving results, and when that doesn't work, they lean on the belief that it's all the individuals fault, and take no blame on their own. The upper management within this department is awful; doesn't listen to feedback, doesn't show care or concern for the individuals, and doesn't seem to understand what we actually do, day to day. Leaders placed processes into place, that actually hindered our department from being successful (many is proprietary so I can't explain them), and continues to lay off great people because of it. Needless to say, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone!! It's a sinking ship, and I'm glad I'm not going to be on board when that happens.

The CEO drove the company into the ground. Lost a lot of money because of his ideas, and then came the layoffs and selling to Home Adviser. It seems he only signed on to AL to make it fail and take a payout. Meanwhile, he devastated tons of employees' livelihoods. Sizable layoffs are a common thing now (or laying people off in chunks over several weeks), people live in fear of being called into an unplanned meeting only to be met with a layoff. Morale is very poor and most people are looking for other opportunities. They are a fan of laying off the more senior & experienced staff in favor of cheaper, inexperienced workers. The product itself is already shoddy, so enlisting inexperienced employees is a very poor decision. This makes it difficult to advance in the company. They don't respect any of their values to lower level employees, and it's obvious that this one-time fun, growing company has turned into nothing but a corporate greed machine -- doing whatever it takes to feed dollars into executives' pockets. I don't expect the company to be around in 2018 since it's been sold to HA and layoffs have been accelerated.