The Most Shady Company I've Worked For - Strategist Red Ventures Employee Review

1.0
Oct 18, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

*Nice Office and Plenty of Gourmet Snacks *Great Vacation Policy *Many career opportunities *Learning Opportunties

Cons

*Incredibly shady business practices - RV operates hundreds of websites (including BestColleges.com, theBestSchools, Greatist, and Bankrate) with the sole goal of not providing correct or quality information but rather heavily monetizing these websites and squeezing as much money as possible out of them. *Your goal working here isn't to provide value to visitors, readers, or customers, but rather to game Google in order to improve the amount of people coming to the websites and thus converting. *Leadership regularly parades employees around on-stage at company wide updates in order to hand-out stacks of cash for employees who 'wear the same shirt every day for a month'.... *RV has a mostly flat structure - enabling us to mostly have hordes of young worker bees to take advantage of *The organization operates like your typical Venture Capitalist firm - buying up companies, gutting them, and squeezing out as much money as possible until it brakes.

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Cons

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Cons

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