AOL Reviews

3.9

50% would recommend to a friend

(1,508 total reviews)
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Tim Armstrong

68% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

AOL has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,508 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AOL 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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1.0
3 Feb 2014
Recommend
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Pros

25 days holidays Working from home option for some employees Decent benefits: Gym, social club Top class engineering talent. Opportunities to work on interesting projects affecting millions of people.

Cons

Doesn't reward staff. Bonuses cut this year, token payrises given with promotions, <1% annual payrises. Effectively paycuts when bonus cuts taken into account. 3 months notice needed to leave the company for new hires, 2 months for existing employees. Managers are very poor on communication with employees. May only have meetings with manager a couple of times a year. No discussion on opportunities to progress and grow.

3.0
13 Aug 2017

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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good culture, great people, relaxed working environment.

Cons

The culture is changing towards Verizon way, merger with Yahoo very badly done, staff not kept informed, frequent company meeting to update staff but no substance behind it, AOL staff structure and titles exposed as under rating people for a long time Vs. the job they are doing, the Yahoo merger feels like Yahoo takeover not a merger, really uncertain future. Also if you are not an engineer, you are invisible in Dublin office.

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