If you have an ounce of integrity, stay away from content - Anonymous employee Gateway Blend Employee Review

1.0
10 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Do you like showing up, do nothing but play foosball for eight hours a day, and get paid to put in zero effort? Then this is the job for you!

Cons

The content team exclusively looks to Reddit for “stories,” which they copy and paste and call it “original work.” They advertise their content positions like you’ll be pitching and writing stories, but the position requires no creativity or brain power. If you want to be challenged in your career, you will get bored after a week. When they’re not copying and pasting Reddit posts into clickbait, you’re taking someone’s Reddit post and “rewriting it.” Aka making up details, embellishing and exploiting someone’s personal (often traumatic) story, all without their knowledge. Then, you take screenshots of Youtubers and use them to promote unrelated posts about subjects (like abusive relationships,) and just hope the person whose image we’re using just doesn’t find out. Many people in management positions have no experience producing content at a media outlet, and have no idea how to make actual, effective, clean content. If you pitch an idea to them, their response is, “that’s much too complicated, we want to spend as little time as possible on our content. Like, an hour, tops.” So you’re back to copying and pasting Reddit posts from five years ago. When we DO look to other, non-Reddit outlets for ideas, we usually just steal their article and sometimes even use their headlines word-for-word. They don't let you attribute information you get from other sites, because "we can't link out of our site, because we don't want people to click away!" Most of the interns turn down their full-time offers. If you’re desperate enough to go full-time, you can maybe last six months before losing too many brain cells.

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Gateway Blend Response
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Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. It's one of the most important ways we are able to become an employer of choice in our industry. We're disheartened to hear that your time with us wasn't valuable to you. While we do aggregate and curate content from the internet for certain sites, we source and attribute. We certainly don't condone plagiarism of any kind in our work. We also produce one of a kind premium content on a daily basis. We take pride in our internship program and believe that we offer a unique experience for junior level talent entering our industry. At any given time, we have 6-10 interns and many end up becoming full time employees. We will continue to ensure that the responsibilities of these roles are effectively communicated during the interview process. Thanks again for your feedback and we wish you the best of luck in the future.

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