Terrible experience - Anonymous employee AOL Employee Review

The company has a lot of problems, to start with culture: people talk a lot about integration but nothing effective is ever done to change that. Huffington Post people behave like they are not part of the same company and generally think they are better than everyone else. There is a lot of internal competition, people trying to shine more than others, and a lot of employees prefer to ‘sabotage’ other people’s work rather than help doing the best job as a whole. People who have been working there for longer are normally the nicest ones, while it only takes about 2 weeks to start feeling miserable with all the technical problems and lack of support from anyone. Management changes randomly and people get hired or fired without proper communication to the teams involved and this has been happening for years. A lot of praising around to people’s own achievement but no one seriously address the problems. People get promoted because of personal relationships and friendship all the time and some high managers are absolutely useless and incompetent, so they keep hiring more and more managers and supervisors to the job for them. Internal process to apply for other jobs is a joke, with Talent acquisition, HR and managers all involved in a big mess and completely lack of respect to their employees. In terms of facilities (in the UK), some of the staff are grumpy and unfriendly, toilets are very cold and smell weird, besides being broken, and windows are very dirty. Internet connection is so slow that is unbelievable how they call themselves a tech company and equipments are completely outdated. It’s generally really really bad.