Does Spiceworks Ziff Davis pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Spiceworks Ziff Davis employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Spiceworks Ziff Davis. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Spiceworks Ziff Davis?

49% of Spiceworks Ziff Davis employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Spiceworks Ziff Davis 4.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Spiceworks Ziff Davis?

Account Executive (11) , Client Success Manager (9) , Software Developer (9) , Manager (8) , Sales (8) , Account Director (5) , Software Engineer (5) , Marketing (4) , Account Manager (3) , Email Marketing Specialist (3) , Lead Generation Specialist (3) , Senior Account Executive (3) , Senior Software Engineer (3) , Business Development Executive (2) , Client Success (2)

What are the pros of working at Spiceworks Ziff Davis according to real employee reviews?

"There are no shortage of good smart people to work with each day." ((in 39 reviews)); "Great culture and platform." ((in 32 reviews)); "The company culture is great; there is very little bureaucracy." ((in 16 reviews)); "Benefits are good" ((in 12 reviews)); "Great team and you're constantly busy" ((in 11 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Spiceworks Ziff Davis according to real employee reviews?

"They had a big layoff and are outsourcing everything to India and doing bit contracts." ((in 12 reviews)); "Below average pay and benefits" ((in 9 reviews)); "After new leadership and internal changes, everything went to hell." ((in 8 reviews)); "The odds of working for a bad manager are pretty high (sales and media operations seem to have the most problems)." ((in 5 reviews)); "Upper management not sure about the core of the business" ((in 4 reviews))

What are employees saying about Spiceworks Ziff Davis layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Spiceworks Ziff Davis layoffs and their outlook for job security at Spiceworks Ziff Davis in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Spiceworks Ziff Davis locations?

Austin , New York , Boston , Chicago , Phoenix

Spiceworks Ziff Davis reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(249 total reviews)

Steve Horowitz

60% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

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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).

Reviews by job title

249 reviews

2.0

Jul 15, 2016

Everything is changing

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

-Nice office. -Free food. -Great people. -Good health insurance.

Cons

-No 401k matching. -Terrible PTO. -Things have been trending the wrong direction since Scott left. -Lost many friends to layoffs. -Average pay. -Constantly asked to take surveys to make company look good. -Long commute to work. -No longer transparent with its employees.

2.0

Nov 4, 2016

Been going downhill for over a year now

Software developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

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

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.

2.0

Aug 16, 2019

Sinking ship

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The people. That's about it.

Cons

Everything else. Well I guess you can consider snacks a pro but they are seriously lacking there too.

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