techweek Reviews

2.5

25% would recommend to a friend

(23 total reviews)

Katy Lynch

27% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

techweek has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 23 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The techweek employee rating is 33% below average for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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23 reviews
1.0
Feb 6, 2015

Absolute Nightmare

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Met and worked with some amazing, but unappreciated people who were all either fired or quit. - Ridiculous expectations forced me to push my knowledge and learn new skills

Cons

- Sleazy Founder/CEO who micromanages everything, belittles everyone - 60-80 work weeks, getting a 'talking to' for only working 9-10 hours a day - No work/life balance, no value of people - Thrown into the deep end from day one and asked to do tasks that have nothing to do with position hired for - Constant restricting of company - Incredibly high turnover - No consideration of basic amenities like coffee, paper towels, etc. - Terrible compensation

1.0
Dec 3, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Fun parties, flexible work hours

Cons

You do not get paid a lot, but you work 60-70 hours. Unfortunately the management does not care how many last minute changes they make or how late you have to stay there. Working here does not give you a work-life balance and you will find yourself exhausted all the time. There is constant tension in the office between management and employees and you can forget management ever listening to your ideas. You are constantly on the defense rather than offense. Expect calls at all hours of the day and night. If you want to feel belittled and stupid then this is the perfect place for you to work. It's not worth it.

1.0
Mar 16, 2017

I thought startups were sexy until I came here

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Preface: I worked at Techweek briefly and left promising myself I wouldn't look back once I escaped. But after hearing that the company continues to hire and deceive employees, I felt compelled to leave a note here. The bulk of the reviews on Techweek's page are honest accounts of employee experiences, not exaggerations. Lesson learned: Trust Glassdoor reviews! I didn't and I wish I had. -- You get to say you work at a startup. You can wear literally anything to work. No one cares if you show up after 10am. Sometimes no one cares if you show up at all. You learn how to execute tasks at record speed, without oversight, in functions in which you have no previous experience or training. You develop a deep empathy for the characters on Silicon Valley. You discover moral principles you never realized you had because no one had so thoroughly trampled them before. You’re always able to one-up the office horror stories of your friends who work at saner, less self-destructive companies

Cons

You’re sold a bill of good about ownership and innovation when you’re hired, only to discover that there’s only one pair of slightly-too-small pants in the office, worn by an imperious chairman with a pocket square fetish. You’re jerked around by managers who set unachievable goals and craft self-congratulatory excuses for not reaching them. Every meeting is a speech about how the company has “learned so much” and is now finally poised for unbridled success. Employees who were praised as rockstars on Monday have disappeared mysteriously by Friday. Eventually transparency, predictability, meritocracy and any semblance of professional functionality all seem like beautiful, hazy memories. You wake up one morning to the realization that going to work every day feels less like your obligation as a productive member of society and more like the next act of an absurdist play about that frog in the pot of slowly boiling water who is either too stupid or too lazy to jump out

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