Need a lot of work - Anonymous employee comiXology Employee Review

2.0
Sep 11, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

+ You're part of Amazon so assuming you do a decent enough job you'll have job stability + Free comics for the most part (though they started cutting back on this as I was leaving) + A few good people left but they're all super over it.

Cons

- Employee exodus: Post-acquisition, just about every good employee has left. VP of Product, Director of Marketing, Finance, Engineers, Editors, etc. There is a mass exodus from every department now that most people got their Amazon RSUs - A rudder less boat: There is little direction for the future of the business beyond "selling more comics". This leads to rushes in the Digital Editors to edit more comics that don't actually make money compared to the Marvel and DC comics they already edit - Management+Culture: The executives that are left seem to have blinders on. They treat the remaining employees as if they're disposable. This creates a really bad culture, and though they're trying to be better, their efforts are falling flat. Then, when they give HR impossible goals like "Recruit 6 new employees a month to make the year end goal", it's HR's fault for not being able to close good talent when management refuses to acknowledge that maybe their management, culture, and interviewers alert potential candidates that they need to run for the hills and join one of the many other companies in NYC. - Not a fun environment: You'd think selling comics would make the place fun. It's not. No free lunches, snacks are from a vending machine you have to pay for. Only free drinks are water and coffee. We have fruit that's rarely stocked.

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5.0
Sep 21, 2020
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Pros

1. I personally enjoyed great WLB 2. Managers are extremely flexible with your personal schedule 3. Great pay and performance incentives 4. Really smart people you get to work with 5. Leadership does a lot set career tracks 6. Amazing work culture - super laid back.

Cons

sometimes changing priorities due to unavoidable internal and external factors could be frustrating

2.0
Feb 15, 2024
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Pros

I got to meet a lot of cool interesting, nerdy comic book folx. A lot of my co-workers were part of the LGBTQ community, which helps. People are generally happy to help each other, if they can.

Cons

Almost everything else. I worked 50-60+ hours for 10 years and got passed over for opportunities and promotions over and over again. I had 8 bosses in 10 years, so it was hard to get any traction if you wanted to do anything else with your career, Unless you sucked up to management or just had some genius level learning aptitude. (By the way, it's not a great place for people with disabilities either). I had so much more I could have offered the company, but they really didn't care. It was a boring, soul-sucking, draining job and now that I've been laid off, it's been really hard finding employment again. Yes, I'm a very bitter ex-Amazon employee. You might say, "why didn't you just leave before?" Well, good question. I tried with no success.

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