Structurally Unsound - Anonymous employee comiXology Employee Review

1.0
9 Dec 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some very smart, passionate people within the staff - though most of them are at their wits end. If you like comics you can spend your time at work talking about them. Bagels on Wednesdays, and sometimes there are office outings to new superhero movies.

Cons

The company drifts like an aimless ship making sudden jerky movements this way and that as the leadership team reactively finds something new to focus on and reliably changes course before anything constructive can be created. Some top level positions are filled not based on merit, but on cronyism and nepotism of the highest order. Many a passionate employee has joined the team only to be crushed under the relentless myopia the company's decision making suffers from. Innovation and going above and beyond your job description tends to not be worth it for most employees as they will only be setting themselves up for negative consequences if those extracurricular goals are not achieved, and they often wont be. Resources and assets aren't so much stretched thin as they are misappropriated. Meaningful change to the product or tools comes about extremely slowly, if at all, while the leadership passive aggressively complains about the company's short comings out of one side of their mouth while celebrating the most unimportant and ineffective of changes with the other. Decisions come not from data or thoroughly planned methodology, but seem to come out of personal opinions of the people in charge. When a good idea is finally dragged out of the day to day chaos, it tends to be swiftly abandoned without post-mortem or even a real effort to make any true success. Minimum Viable Product is the name of the game, and "Minimum" is up for debate. All of the best employees on the staff have already left or are spending most of their time fantasizing about doing so.

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5.0
21 Sept 2020
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Pros

1. I personally enjoyed great WLB 2. Managers are extremely flexible with your personal schedule 3. Great pay and performance incentives 4. Really smart people you get to work with 5. Leadership does a lot set career tracks 6. Amazing work culture - super laid back.

Cons

sometimes changing priorities due to unavoidable internal and external factors could be frustrating

2.0
15 Feb 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I got to meet a lot of cool interesting, nerdy comic book folx. A lot of my co-workers were part of the LGBTQ community, which helps. People are generally happy to help each other, if they can.

Cons

Almost everything else. I worked 50-60+ hours for 10 years and got passed over for opportunities and promotions over and over again. I had 8 bosses in 10 years, so it was hard to get any traction if you wanted to do anything else with your career, Unless you sucked up to management or just had some genius level learning aptitude. (By the way, it's not a great place for people with disabilities either). I had so much more I could have offered the company, but they really didn't care. It was a boring, soul-sucking, draining job and now that I've been laid off, it's been really hard finding employment again. Yes, I'm a very bitter ex-Amazon employee. You might say, "why didn't you just leave before?" Well, good question. I tried with no success.

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