WebMD Health reviews

The fish stinks from the head down, as they say, yet the focus at this company is continually on what employees are doing wrong, not doing, or should stop doing, to improve business. Instead, top management needs to understand that you can't be absent, or be insulting when you do make an appearance, and expect people to respect and want to do well for you. Increasingly the company has been more HR-centric and focused on rules rather than leadership. Ruthlessness has become confused with competence. Favored employees receive successive promotions and raises, more support staff, and greater flexibility, while other diligent workers face reduced resources, dismal performance reviews and compensation increases, dead-end careers, and increasing restrictions. The disparity in treatment is beyond obvious. Longterm inner-circle division heads who have risen in the ranks are out of touch with current business practices and are skilled only at navigating the putrid political environment and sucking up to the company president. If the company is ever to push beyond the barrier it seems to continually hit and never surmount, this tier of management needs to go. HR is now dominated by egomaniacs who are more interested in hearing themselves talk and engaging in gossip than contributing anything that might improve culture or morale. They view and treat employees as the enemy, when they should be fostering and leveraging employees' expertise. Pursue working here only if you feel the brand would enhance your resume, and have your next job in mind before you accept one here.

1. The review process. I got a bad review for being out on Maternity leave. I was told by employees this would happen to me when I became pregnant, but I didn't believe it until it did. I was given an in development rating because my year wasn't long enough bc I was out....HAVING A BABY while working at a HEALTH COMPANY. 2. There is no maternity policy- just the substandard go on disability. But they give the exec team 8 weeks of FULLY paid vacation. Why not just pay out the full three months? You can certainly afford to- you spend 50x more money on awful catered sandwiches that end up in the garbage everyday or water bottles that are NOT being recycled. 3. Culture- when I resigned the manager of our group never acknowledged I was leaving. A person who was my manager for almost two years said nothing to me even though they knew I resigned without a job. Nothing. Completely ignored that I was leaving the company. Very bizarre but very telling about the type of culture they are creating. 4. Content- I wrote many emails to the teams to let them know this content should probably be updated, and was wrong or very outdated. Nothing was changed or updated. No one cares enough to correct things. 5. The CEO once said they wouldn't take a deal if it was bad for business. A certain large GMO company is currently advertising on WebMD. This isn't health focused. They have lost their own vision. 6. SO TOP HEAVY with VP's and Directors. There are so many decision makers not enough action. There is no where to grow here, no career path unless you are somehow connected to the corner office. 7. They let go some really talented people to make room for new people. This created chaos, and things a year plus later are still in swirl!