Red Ventures reviews

3.1

53% would recommend to a friend

(2,052 total reviews)
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Ric Elias

56% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Red Ventures has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,052 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Red Ventures employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Oct 18, 2019

The Most Shady Company I've Worked For

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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.

2.0
Jun 21, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

High autonomy to work on new projects and acquire new skills Constantly surrounded by talent and incredible people

Cons

Lack of standards in all aspects, ranging from career trajectories and salaries to job duties - someone with the same job title as you could be doing much less and getting much paid more and vice-versa Lots of problems and concerns are swept under the rug, whether it be with work environment, infrastructure issues, workflow, expected job duties, etc. Lack of good middle management - lots of mismatched roles (ie. people in leadership roles who clearly aren't meant to be)

4.0
Jul 26, 2018

Good role flexibility, disorganized, biased

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Pros

- Flexible roles: easy to switch teams or even take on projects that you don't have a background in - Genuine focus on learning and development - Flexible vacation policy - Flexible work/life balance: you could work hard to get promoted faster, or take it easier if that was a better pace for you. - Employees take ownership over their work. - Fun environment, lots of fun activities and everybody wants to be friends with each other - If they like you, they will promote you to a level well above your experience level. - Cafeteria is very convenient - From a non-sales employee's perspective, I think they are pretty good at trying to make sure the sales employees benefit from the perks as much as the non-sales employees do (i.e. cafeteria is open late, no designated work from home day since sales wouldn't be able to do that, makes sure to have a plan in place to help sales employees attend talks) - Lots of involvement with charities, volunteer opportunities at work - Amazing speakers have been brought in. I'm not sure I will ever forget the Cancun trips and Culture Fest Inspiration day; they were mind-blowingly awesome. - Proactive, positive coworkers and some are very talented

Cons

- Extremely disorganized (somewhat at the "company strategy" level, but more that there are very few mid-level managers, so IC's are saddled with an excess of projects without proper prioritization and a complete lack of focus, so nothing gets done) - Clear bias against women in promotions / compensation, a result of the disorganized review process and role responsibilities - The downside of flexible roles is that expertise is often lacking in areas where they've promoted an internal person up to take on a new role. - Low pay relative to market - Decision-making and promotions are very political at Red Ventures. It is a large, disorganized company with a lot of people operations work to do, so "political" may be expected, but it has a very negative effect on the quality of managers and the work experience overall. - Location is inconvenient if you are coming from Charlotte - Only recently did they start to focus on tech at the company, so there is a lot of technical debt and they are still working out a technical strategy / filling technical leadership / getting systems in place - Bit of a weird or delusional attitude pervades the place; for example, employees constantly make statements about how "RV moves so fast" but it doesn't. Most of the employees that make these statements have never worked anywhere else. It's not a problem (more a symptom of the above-listed problems), but it might make you feel like you are going crazy.

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