it's awful - really! :-( - Anonymous employee Livefyre Employee Review

1.0
Mar 14, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

New investors who hopefully will see the CEO (Jordan) for what he is - a complete leadership failure. Now that there are investors who aren't in Jordan's 'circle', the hope is the new investors will call him on his ineffective, childish behavior that doesn't event slightly resemble leadership and take action to get a new executive team in place - under an experienced CEO.

Cons

Coming to work everyday. is now a con Reorg? Right - own it, Jordan. It was a layoff and a significant one at that with the loss of a lot of great people - not people who were dead weight like the previous reviewer tried to say (probably Jordan writing a review to counter all the other truthful reviews on here). The company is now almost half the size of what it was when I started. We even had to redesign our website to hide the fact we have so many fewer employees. We used to have page with individual pictures of each employee that was quickly taken down. It's a skeleton crew now trying to rebuild the mess Jordan made with his failure and no sign of improvement. There is no leadership, product development is a disaster and Jordan flat out lies - if his mouth is moving, he is lying. DYSFUNCTION is the corporate culture here and starts right at the top. Jordan's management style is the definition of dysfunction.

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5.0
Mar 11, 2016
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Pros

- Incredibly cool and fun product - Warm family(like) environment - Honest and direct communication between departments and management to staff - Stunning office, beautiful rooftop deck, close to all methods of transportation - Scrappy and positive outlook by team members - Kitchen rivals Whole Foods in its food, coffee and snack options

Cons

- Normal day to day start- up struggles, with too many things to do and not enough time in the day. - Needs a more concise plan for career paths and advancement

3.0
Feb 22, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I worked at livefyre for a year and some change. I had a great time. Fantastic engineers, active learning environment, all the blah blah blahs that you get in startuplandia.... You can learn a great deal here and there's still some good people left, but things have and are a changin'....

Cons

I'm not going to go agro or list a bunch of things that are wrong, but there are. Long story short there is no "culture" here anymore, and there is no loyalty. The company and moreover CEO are in "buy me" mode and so are doing whatever they feel is necessary to attain that. You will be told you are irreplaceable one day and be gone the next these days. It's sad, especially to watch a bunch of people (20 - 30 in the past couple of months) who gave their heart and soul to the org and the job get dropped no notice, and to "save money" Immediately after a huge funding round. Eh, these are rich men playing rich men games. No matter how much they preach about whatever the heck it is they are preaching about goals, values, culture, etc. It means nothing. Know this.

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