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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
Dec 2, 2016

Account executive

Anonymous employee
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Pros

They have a beautiful office and have great benefits.

Cons

This place is a shell of what it used to be. They set quotas way to high and don't seem to care about their employees like they used to.

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Spiceworks Ziff Davis Response
9y
I'm sorry to hear you feel that our quotas are too high. Our hope is that everyone can meet their quotas but as with every sales organization that I'm aware of, that just doesn't happen for many reasons. We're in the midst of setting our '17 quotas and the sales leadership and sales finance teams are taking a very thorough and thoughtful approach to getting this right. I also need to point out that we ask our employees to not share confidential, non-public internal company information. Glassdoor asks the same in their community guidelines. Your statement of "your whole sales floor is under 60%" is both non-public internal company info -- and flat out wrong. I won't share the exact number publicly but a majority of our team is over 60% and even much, much higher than that. And I'm thrilled for all of the team members who have made, and even crushed, their numbers this year. I'm happy to go through the details with you in person ... or you can see your manager or our sales finance team. As I always say, I have an open door and as you are still here I'd welcome the change to discuss in person.
5.0
Nov 13, 2016

Fantastic workplace!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Fantastic group of people to work with / great culture. Strong emphasis on ownership and following through on your ideas / initiatives.

Cons

Management can be a bit too "Rah-rah" and overly positive about things when something isn't working out as planned.

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Spiceworks Ziff Davis Response
9y
Thanks for sharing! Hopefully you've had a chance to interact with the executive team and management through our many ways of doing so (Slices, Friday meetings, Quarterly updates, open doors, etc.) but if you haven't please let me (Jay) know what challenges you're facing.
2.0
Nov 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Good people - Quick advancement

Cons

- Below average pay and benefits - Product no longer stands out and lacks polish - Money and numbers over product and people - Dishonest tool marketing - Unclear direction - Bleeding developer talent past few months (1-3 people leaving/week) - Location

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Spiceworks Ziff Davis Response
9y
Thanks for sharing your concerns. I hope you'll be at our weekly company meeting as we have a lot of exciting news to share of things not going downhill. In fact, we'll cover a bunch of trends that are going "up and to the right" (aka uphill) for over a year. Regarding the comment re: "product no longer stands out", we've communicated to our community of IT pros at Spiceworld London in May and at Spiceworld Austin in November how we're evolving the entire Spiceworks experience and product suite and we received very positive feedback. We've also covered that in several company meetings and at our weekly Friday meetings. As with any evolution though one can never communicate enough so as we head into '17 we'll spend even more time here.
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