BuzzFeed Reviews

3.6

73% would recommend to a friend

(526 total reviews)

Jonah Peretti

65% approve of CEO

19% positive business outlook

BuzzFeed has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 526 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BuzzFeed employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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526 reviews
1.0
29 May 2016

Get in, get experience, get out.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free snacks Free swag every year Some great, creative people as co-workers Looks good on your CV

Cons

Low pay with no chance of raises or promotion. Managers who actively discourage employees from discussing salaries (which is illegal) and who reprimand employees who've discussed their salary with others or try to get a raise. This happens across multiple departments. Lack of skills and knowledge by management to address the real problems in the company that prevent us from doing better work. A lot of incompetent managers who skate along doing nothing and don't get fired. Big drain from the company of talented, smart people on both the editorial and business sides due to lack of respect, being treated like a content factory and absolutely no chance for any kind of career progression or even a salary rise when their annual review is due.

1.0
21 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free lunch twice a week. As much free kombucha as you want. If you're a white man, you can get paid a huge amount to do no work whatsoever. Also good news if you're a sexual harasser, the company will cover it up for you.

Cons

The company makes a massive play out of being a great place to work, a modern, progressive organisation. Every senior position is held by a white man, who go boozing with other senior white men while women do the grunt work, get overlooked for senior roles, and have to endure inappropriate sexual behaviour from their drunk male colleagues. Mass layoffs take place every year, so the mood in the place is always dire. The most hypocritical company ever: they want everyone to think they're liberal and kind and happy and progressive, in reality they treat their staff terribly, especially women.

1.0
8 Jul 2018

Utter Chaos

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- free lunch 2x a week - good snacks

Cons

- Restructures and re-orgs literally every few months. Makes it very hard to know what's going on, and it's clear that the guys at the top have no idea what they're doing - Pretend to be super progressive and liberal when in reality most leadership is white men and "boys clubs" exist throughout the company - promoting each other rather than deserving talent - Feels exploitative - they will add a ton more responsibilities to your job but refuse to give the pay rises or promotions you deserve - which is probably all due to cutting costs and maximising profits. Why hire 3 people to do 3 jobs, when you could just make 1 person do it? - Lack of specialism - similar to above, they don't want to pay experienced people in their field to do certain roles, they ask existing staff - who have no idea what they're doing - to take on roles instead. There's a distinct lack of people who are "masters" in their field and there's no one to learn from. It's all about just winging it, and getting the job done, rather than quality or thought.

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