Working here is bad for you in every way - Anonymous employee Spokeo Employee Review

It is not uncommon for Spokeo to “lose” an entire department in a day. Or they will slowly cut down department members one by one until there’s no one left. You could be in the middle of managing a project, only to find that the entire team responsible for building it has been fired or all quit. Then management will wonder what value you bring to the organization, since there’s nothing left for you to work on. So you’ll get punted around for a bit, working on projects that are nowhere near your area of expertise, then you’ll get fired too. For fun in your interview ask how long that person has been in their role. Unless they’re a VP or C-level, or an asian man, you can bet they’ve been there less than a year. I agree with other reviews here, I had never witnessed such overt sexism prior in my career to what I encountered at Spokeo. A woman can be an expert in her field and share her thoughts on a direction and literally the nearest man who has no background in that area can blindly disagree with her (and be wrong) and Spokeo will stand behind the man and often terminate the woman for “not knowing what she’s talking about.” Saw this happen a lot. There isn’t a real polite way to say this, but the C-Suite cannot or will not make good decisions. They consistently make willfully bad choices that no one else in the entire organization can understand. They’ve poured money into stupid ventures with literally no way to become viable or solvent (they spent millions building a website that isn’t even designed to accept payments). They’ve terminated team members on the actual day of team-building exercises meant to boost that team’s flagging morale following excessive turnover. They refuse to listen to internal or external experts in regards to product development, customer service, performance, marketing, or improvements to ensure long-term organizational viability. They can be presented with concrete data proving something isn’t working or is getting worse and they will disregard it and double-down on the bad direction. They can be presented with a well-researched competitive analysis that begs for a change in direction in product development, and they’ll just scoff and say the other company just doesn't have Spokeo's brilliance. Their competitors are growing much faster than they are, and have much better data quality. It feels hard to believe that Spokeo can actually stay in business for much longer. It’s fishy that they still are. They are willfully horrendous business managers and generally bad people. If you have any options at all, do not work here. It’s a negative mark on your record. This is a highly unethical company with no intention of changing. They lie to their customers, and they will lie to you. They get taken to court a lot. And to make themselves feel better about all this, they will gaslight you that you were never had any value, and weren’t knowledgeable in your area (even if you can quantifiably prove otherwise), and that people like you are the reason this company is failing. Do not work here if you can at all avoid it.