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3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(249 total reviews)

Steve Horowitz

60% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Spiceworks Ziff Davis has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 249 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Spiceworks Ziff Davis employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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249 reviews
1.0
Nov 4, 2016

Ship perhaps sinking...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You will meet some great people. Decent snacks and great espresso machine. Happy hours and parties. Interesting business model that is fun to sell.

Cons

Sales is viewed culturally as 2nd class. Strong divide between development and sales (not that unusual), but more disturbingly between marketing and sales. Especially given Spiceworks is a marketing company. Lots of ongoing tension. Discrimantes against non-millineals and perfers mainly privledged mid-level career white males or young white females/males for career entry.

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Spiceworks Ziff Davis Response
9y
Thanks for the time at Spiceworks and sorry it didn't work out. 2016 was a tough transition year for us but I'm proud of the changes we made and how well we've entered 2017, well positioned for a great future. I'm having a hard time understanding the view that sales is viewed 2nd class. I wish you had seen me to talk about that before you left. We've invested in the sales team and we're doing even more in 2017 with new leadership and great training. Regarding tension with dev and marketing, while that will nearly always happen to some degree in companies it is certainly something we don't want. I'm confident in 2017 that will improve as we've aligned the company to fewer and more clear priorities. Tensions usually arise when those aren't aligned.
1.0
Oct 8, 2018

No clear company direction or focus

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Solid coworkers - Solid benefits

Cons

- It is hard to get things done when the CEO wants to micro manage every aspect of the business. - Lack of employee investment by the company, and career development here is non-existent - Without clear direction or focus on updating product technology, the company continues to fail users and customers while ultimately missing target sales numbers.

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Spiceworks Ziff Davis Response
7y
I'm disappointed to hear that but thanks for the feedback. Without knowing which team you were on it's hard to address each point specifically. I'm not sure what micromanagement you are referring to -- over the past year we have empowered our revenue and product teams through their operations meetings which I haven't attended for months. It's exciting to see both of those teams grow. We've acknowledged we were historically weak re employee development and the new and expanded HR team has invested a lot of time there. We've delivered Agile training to engineering and we've invested in management training across the Revenue team. We've spent several company meetings articulating our strategy and we recently shared that with the world -- at Spiceworld. It was very well received by over 2,000 attendees and many, many IT pros stopped me in the halls and at the party telling me how they couldn't do their jobs without Spiceworks. This happened with many other Spiceworkers. That coupled with our helping millions of IT pros globally every month makes it difficult for me to see how we are "failing" users and customers. We've invested a lot of time and effort over the past couple of years in transforming the company including bringing in leaders who have driven meaningful change in many organizations. I'm fully confident we'll continue to do so and get Spiceworks back on the best places to work lists.
2.0
Mar 16, 2018

Utter Chaos

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Pros

I met some great people

Cons

Sinking ship environment where everything is manic / chaotic / not well planned

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