Mismanaged SEO marketing scheme: stay away - Anonymous employee Sleep Doctor Employee Review

1.0
27 Dec 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Chill job while it lasts, good pay and benefits. Lavish parties they cannot afford, great until one day you lose your job out of nowhere in the middle of a work day.

Cons

The entire brand is now based around a multimillionaire professional Oprah guest who namedrops celebrities and leverages his “PhD in sleep” (note this is not an MD) to shill sleep products of varying levels of quality or effectiveness. Very clear making money is this guy’s MO above any sort of medical ethics but he’s quite charismatic. He’ll personally tell you his thoughts on why melatonin shouldn't be mass-marketed as a sleep product then OK having his face slapped on melatonin gummies by the parent company. By the way, these guys took the liberty of renaming the company right after unceremoniously laying off 40% of the company in the middle of a Thursday morning so look up “Onecare Media” if you want to see more about how this place operates. They spend money recklessly, flying in various remote employees cross country on a weekly basis and shoveling money into “culture events” such as box suite mariners games and open bar happy hour events. All pretty fun stuff until you don’t have a job anymore and they try to tell you it was a “difficult financial decision”, really beyond insulting… They keep you in the dark about macro level financial decisions that WILL affect your livelihood and then lay everyone off when it doesn't add up. And given that the company’s entire business model lives and dies off the fickle inner workings of search algorithms I doubt anyone’s job is safe long term at this company but I do hope they lay off the asinine fluff spending for the sake of the good people still working there.

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Sleep Doctor Response
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Many of our team members were excited about the rebranding to Sleep Doctor, which is inline with our strategic direction to build the leading DTC brand in sleep. Regrettably, last summer we had to reduce the size of our staff. Similar to many other companies at the time, our company faced challenges with economic conditions and external factors beyond our control. It wasn’t something we took lightly, and provided all of our team members with severance packages.

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