CNET Reviews

New owners drastically changed business goals, hired lots of new employees last year, then began laying off more experienced ones in advance of executive bonuses. Many other talented staff members have left since. Management sets uninformed and unrealistic expectations for performance while reducing resources. The company also wastes a lot of time with too many all-hands and professional development meetings that are unrelated to specific positions (I counted 8 hours total for one week).

Editorial standards have dropped precipitously since CNET was purchased by Red Ventures. Focus is now almost entirely on best lists, which are increasingly written without any testing to support them. Constant layoffs and employee-blaming. Long term authority being neglected in service of short term profits. Constantly spoke of diversity and inclusion, while laying off the entire Spanish language staff and minority writers/hosts, seemingly because their salaries were higher than the new straight-from-college hires.