Vevo reviews

3.6

72% would recommend to a friend

(149 total reviews)
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Alan Price

83% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Vevo has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 149 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vevo 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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149 reviews
2.0
Sep 6, 2016

Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Not a whole lot of pros. Good work space. Daily lunch. Nice views of the city. Friendly people for the most part.

Cons

Poor salary and no long term benefits. Mediocre people hired. Long term incentive plan never materialized. Don't believe the recruiters they lie that you can work from home twice a week. CEO Eric Huggers conducts town halls at 9am in sf where attendance is required so he can feel good. Good luck getting into the city at that time if you have kids or live far away. Few people can afford to live in the city. The company doesn't really care about employees. The CTO is lives in uk/Europe and has little idea on how things work in the Bay Area.

2.0
Sep 13, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

As in all places, some really good people while a select few.

Cons

Very few people do substantive work. New management doesn't like participation but delegation as said so in his first meeting. It was something along the lines of too many people having input and he was calling the shots. When they came, the heart fell out...but hey they are ripe for an anti-trust suit with their new accomplishment...a partnership with Warner. That's pretty much all of the market.

3.0
Dec 9, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay, isolated from the rest of the company, free to work on Engineering problems and not deal with broader politics. If you just want a stable job where you just do what you're told and get to go home on time, this is it.

Cons

If you like be involved in and have a say in the overall architecture, or be self-directed and work with others, this job is not a good fit. I left very quickly for the following reasons. Several teammates said they prefer to be code monkeys and not learn new things. Big red flag. Manager had no respect for other teams, thought ours was the only competent one. Made it very difficult to be effective at my job by micro managing and requiring solutions be done his way. Unacceptable style for a team of senior engineers. Manager had a massive ego, and despite having no more experience than I, would not consider my point of view. Seems like a pretty big problem that he'll have with anyone that he disagrees with in the future. Numerous embarrassing bugs in the codebase. For example, shortly before going live with a big new product, a casually noticed endpoints that were just completely missing the right authentication or authorization checks. There were many other examples in the code where the authors didn't consider corner cases. For a team of senior engineers, this didn't seem right.

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