Reconsider if you're growth minded or hostility-averse - Anonymous employee Scribd Inc. Employee Review

1.0
15 Apr 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• Benefits are good. They provide 100% coverage for employees and 80% for dependents • Free in-office meals and snacks pre/post(?) covid. Normal tech world stuff • Scribd Flex program lets you work from where you want - remote/in-office/hybrid • Thoughtful in-person and virtual events. Hardworking People Team • Smart, caring, hardworking peers (keyword: PEERS) • Well-intentioned employee resource groups (facilitated by employees) that seem to pick up a lot of the slack for the gaps in support from leadership

Cons

• Industry-low wages - it just is what it is. They talk a lot about doing compensation analyses but that isn't apparent or reflected in salaries. They also took bonuses away from the hourly employees a couple of years ago so don't expect anything above and beyond your hourly wage if you're not salaried unless you buy your stock options (which, at this point, are likely unaffordable to hourly employees) • Outlook isn't great - general finances look more dismal by the month no matter how fluffed up they make other things look and the apparent need to mention to the masses that you aren't considering layoffs as a result is disconcerting. I get it, but it isn't reassuring • Little to no opportunity to learn OR grow and if your wages don't offset the stagnance then what's the point? • Lack of challenging or meaningful work • The transparency seems inconsistent. There is a lot of talk about what is going well and what actions are taken in terms of social responsibilities but the secrecy about higher-level (or not) resignations is weird • Turnover is CRAZY. This is a rough estimate but based on what we're privy to and what information we're able to see, turnover looks to be somewhere in the 20-25%/year range. People are leaving in droves and for a company with a headcount that hovers somewhere around 320-330, it's a large chunk of people and it becomes really rocky • Management with longevity gets away with anything and everything. HR does NOT rock the boat and the general consensus among employees that have attempted to rectify something through HR is that they just don't care about employee hardships or mistreatments. Depending on who you end up working under, it ranges from favoritism to full-on public beratement

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Pros

good culture, great work and highly recommended, remote first

Cons

no annual stock grants or refereshers. It is once in two year thing.

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5.0
18 Aug 2025
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Pros

- Competitive Salary & Benefits for a tech company of its size. - A great people team that truly actually tries to make the company a more fun and supportive place to work. - Fun offsites / onsites for team building. - Solid work-life balance, generally flexible. - Bonus structure (if you qualify) is very generous. - Work feels meaningful, you get to work on a product that helps people learn and develop every day. - Lots of internal promotions (depending on your team) - The work really never gets boring, it is fast-paced but not chaotic, like some earlier stage startups can be. Scribd has been around for awhile and is well-structured internally. - Not reliant on funding any longer which takes off a lot of stress.

Cons

- The audiobook space is tough to crack, and a lot of effort has gone into projects that haven’t quite materialized. - User acquisition is very reliant on SEO, which results in volatility often out of anyone’s control. - There could be more transparency on when people leave or get let go, often times you don’t know someone is gone until you go to message them and they are de-activated. - The annual raises could use some flexibility, 2% doesn’t keep up with inflation these days. - Growth has been lagging, which can put a lot of stress on everyone.

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