The Truth About The Motley fool - Anonymous employee The Motley Fool Employee Review

4.0
10 May 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

TMF can be a great place for someone further along in their career who is looking for work-life balance. The benefits are competitive, WFH is a plus, and the people are generally nice, collaborative, and open to ideas.

Cons

Clarity. The company's efforts are not driven by a clear, unified, and effective long-term strategy. Instead, ideas come from every angle of the business—which isn't always a bad thing—but without a clear strategy, these ideas are not effectively prioritized. Dozens of "review teams" are left to greenlight these ideas, having no clear rubric to point back to. It's a mess. If you, as an employee, want your ideas to come to life, you'll need to learn and master the art of navigating through the unnecessarily complex environment and political structure of the Fool. Or, alternatively, you can just decide to enjoy the comfortable work-life balance of the company and try not to ruffle any feathers. Just do what the CEO wants. That, I believe, is the best candidate for TMF.

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5.0
22 Aug 2025
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Pros

Generous benefits,Great benefits and the company really leans into being AI-first, which makes the work feel exciting and future focused. The mission of helping the world invest smarter is meaningful, and the people here are awesome, smart, kind, and fun to work with.

Cons

Priorities shift a lot, which can be frustrating at times, but it’s part of the startup style approach to keep moving forward. You often have to push to get decisions made, so persistence definitely helps.

3.0
18 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Remote work - Great people amongst the rank and file employees - Excellent benefits, and a supportive culture - The opportunity to be an independent voice on stocks. You can speak your mind on a stock, even if it conflicts with what other members of TMF say.

Cons

- Leadership set a goal in 2019 to reach $1 B in revenue. The company tried to achieve this by selling more and more subscriptions, without expanding the research team. Diligence declined. Eventually the stocks recommended did as well. TMF has never really recovered from the reputational loss. - Leaders are chosen based on loyalty, not competence. All leaders basically carry out Tom Gardner's orders, no matter how bizarre or destructive they are. Independent thinkers are gotten rid off.

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