Great place to work, but lacks stability - Anonymous employee BookShout Employee Review

4.0
16 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great work environment. Great people. Great pay. Fulfilling work, especially if you love books. Great product/service.

Cons

Transparency is lacking. Upper management in the office does a good job at keeping employees in the loop, but the parent company who calls the shots may have some hidden zingers every now and then. If you work here, enjoy the ride, but keep your options open just in case.

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5.0
17 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great company with an outstanding culture. Excellent work-life balance. Good benefits. This is a forward thinking company with their eye on growth while working hard to maintain a casual, fun, team-centric culture.

Cons

None that I have seen.

2.0
9 Mar 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A very relaxed environment with flexible hours and a lot of remote work opportunity. Small company with very little red tape. Food, snacks, and drinks for free. It's a cool product that HAD potential.

Cons

They just laid off most of their developers, QA, and business development team, and have essentially given up on growing the product. Ownership doesn't believe that the product can succeed so they are just milking what little they have left. Even before the layoffs some of the key players in creating BookShout's success started quitting (like the head developer and the head salesperson) and the former CEO was forced out. Current leadership is lacking.

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