Audible reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(646 total reviews)
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Bob Carrigan

53% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Audible has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 646 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Audible employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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646 reviews
2.0
Jul 30, 2015

Crazytown

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Insane amount of perks from free lunch, really generous tuition reimbursement, to ping pong and massages in the office. Part of the Amazon family. The external perception of a good company. Generous compensation despite many people complaining about it (everyone always forgets about the stock). Some smart coworkers.

Cons

Senior management has no idea what they're doing. There's internal meltdowns happening all the time and meanwhile, they're spending millions on revitalizing the Newark community. Lots of top, smart, senior folks leaving by the droves. There's also a culture of entitlement that's pervasive throughout tech right now. So many people saying, "I can make more at X." Ok...so go there - that's what I did. It's not helped by management. Too much exception-making going on when people complain. This leads to the squeaky wheel getting the oil while the actual high performers who have their heads down doing work getting screwed and end up leaving. No sense of corporate identity. There's an obvious attempt to be different from Amazon but they can't figure out how aside from spending superfluously on things that employees take for granted or don't care about. The Amazon principles are used for the hiring and interviewing but reviews and promotions are based on a different set of nebulous criteria. Many of the negative reviews mentioned a sense of favoritism and this is why.

5.0
Jul 26, 2015

Great Atmosphere and People

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The offices are open and inviting. the people are nice, friendly and warm and they treat thier employees fairly and with respect.

Cons

There are not many cons at all. Besides obviously that the offices are in Newark New Jersey that is a run down part of the world.

3.0
Jul 21, 2015
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Pros

-Great People. -Good work camaraderie. Lot of of mart people and a lot of stress on process improvement and also encourage any changes suggested for process improvement.

Cons

Undefined road map Too many management and reporting structure changes. Both of the above have lead to lot of chaos in the recent times and has resulted in lot of people from the tech vertical leaving the company. This also leads to uncertainty in terms of career growth as there are a lot of hand-offs between managers. A few people were let go and I feel the management did not come out clean with any reason for those. This created a lot of commotion and uncertainty. And even now it doesn't look they are doing anything to quell the chaos. The amazon leadership principles are used only for interviews. Performance reviews are largely the whims of your manager. So if you are in good books you are safe. Otherwise what you did closest to review would be used for your performance evaluation. There are some good managers who try to be objective so if you are lucky, you'll get them as your manager.

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