Mashable Reviews

3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

(88 total reviews)

Alesha Williams Boyd

100% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Mashable has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 88 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mashable employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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88 reviews
1.0
10 Dec 2016
Recommend
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Pros

It is a nice office and there are some good people who work there

Cons

The lack of diversity in upper management is downright embarrassing. Female and POC employees are working in an outright hostile environment. As a white man I was in an interesting position to hear how management would talk about women and POC employees behind their backs. When I called this out to my superior and to HR I was dismissed. I witnessed so many talented people leave this company because they were treated poorly. Despite several official complaints from many people, HR did nothing to stop bad behavior. I eventually followed because I just couldn't work at a place that did not value their employees equally. They also do not pay well and even though they promoted people after the layoffs many of those promotions were given with no or extremely small pay raises. Believe the bad press that they have been getting recently. This is a terrible place to work.

1.0
12 Oct 2017

If you're brown, black or simply not basic, don't work here.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I mean, besides the La Croix, this experience may look good on your resume but that's still yet to be proven. 🙃

Cons

Oh boy, where do I start? Here goes: - revolving door - unequipped management - leadership is laughable
 -This is literally the white privilege headquarters (for an example: witnessed white employees get lightly disciplined for making the same mistake a POC employee made and the POC employee got harshly disciplined. it's to the point where white staff members have openly expressed their discomfort for how POC employees are treated and talked to in meetings *AND* witnessed white employees get promoted for doing the bare minimum.) - people are friendly to each other, but dishonest behind your back
 - lacks mature, professional individuals who truly know how to work with each other (or are even experienced in handling communication challenges) - C-suite has an inflated sense of self (excluding the Chief of Product). They interact with each other like they're in a fraternity and they're bros. - this is an environment lead by fear, and because of that, the culture is tense.
 - did I mention that the leadership is laughable?
 - the "C-suite" is consistently dishonest about the company's status. (we all know Pete is looking to sell and cash out, and IMO, that's okay - so why lie?)
 - HR is a unfunny joke. It's quite distasteful how unHUMAN the Human Resources person operates. - the company has lost its brand equity in the marketplace. I've gone on interviews and prospective employers basically comment on how laughable Mashable is. - The company is very cheap. they're always looking for ways to cut corners. - most people have no clue what they're doing (with the exception of the product team and some editorial staff) and if they do they're rewarded for their mediocrity. - Extremely Cliquey: the staff interacts with each other like they're in high school. For example, some people run out of work at 5pm on the dot like some sort of bell rang. Super weird. - Generally, most people are socially awkward and lack a certain level of maturity. For example, everyone tries to follow everyone on their personal Instagram page. That's normal, right? WRONG: these same people can't even muster up a simple 'hello' in the MashCafe. Super weird. All in all, I was immediately unimpressed my very first month here. I should have followed my gut and not taken this job, but whatever. But, is Mashable the absolute worst place to work: probably, not. You definitely have to be a specific personality type to work here. Like this review title offers, if you're a POC and simply think independently, this environment can be problematic for you. From my vantage point, the yes-men, docile, unthreatening wallflowers are the ones who are successful here. So if that's you, do you boo!

1.0
5 Dec 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Snacks. Um snacks. Free water? And a roof top (no one uses)?

Cons

Racist, misogynistic, white, white WHITE upper management. Do we need to really hash out @mashablecancels to get the overall scope of just how bad it's become? There was a time when we believed Mashable cared about diversity. Deplorable human resources once said she "understood what it's like being a minority, I was the only Jew growing up in Chicago." Like, no. That's the problem with having an egregious lack of diversity or People of Color in higher positions. When white people try to believe that they care, or even try to empathize, they fall short. Because they're not minorities. They'll never understand our stories. They'll never understand what it's like to walk in our shoes. Stop, Mashable. You're embarrassing yourselves.

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