Multiply Reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(111 total reviews)
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Chris Hawkins

84% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Multiply has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 111 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Multiply 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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111 reviews
1.0
12 Sept 2015
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Pros

- Recently updated their 401K to match employees, unlimited sick days - Snacks, Drinks - Updated equipment and open to new programming processes - Co-workers are intelligent, probably too smart for their own good - Be expected to learn a lot, good and bad

Cons

- The atmosphere is toxic, many employees are in positions they aren't qualified for; e.g. programmers that are in management positions. - Management is ill-equipped to manage their employees since the acquisitions. The company grew too large. They lack the skills to communicate effectively. - Surprise lay-offs. When the numbers don't add up, people get canned. No change in upper management or strategies. The rank and file get punished. - Answers.com reputation as clickbait hurts the SaaS businesses they acquired. Upper management refuses to add value to Answers.com to repair their reputation. Focuses on new clickbait websites, but it's more of the same. Too reliant on Google Ads / Facebook for revenue. - Company pivots constantly. Be expected to work late hours / travel for little recognition. - No diversity.

1.0
21 Jul 2015
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Pros

The only pro is the good people that still remain in spite of the massive layoffs. Also if you are a white male you have a career track. Anyone else--not so much.

Cons

Poorly managed at all levels. The subsidiary companies gobbled up by the parent corporation are seeing their thriving companies slowly be strangled to death. Morale is at an all-time low after another round of massive layoffs. In this day and age, you wouldn't think a pronounced glass ceiling could thrive--but at Answers that is absolutely the case. Women and minorities are not only not promoted into upper management, those that WERE in upper management prior to acquisition lose their jobs. It is an old boys network to be sure--with one weird exception: most of the "boys" are relatively young and you would think/hope they would not run a company this way.

1.0
24 Oct 2015
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Pros

Flexibility and freedom with a healthy dose of micromanagement. The St. Louis office has fun people, some smart sand some not. Lots of free junk food and sugary beverages Midwest style. Occasional happy hours and random celebratory parties. Unlimited sick days, which is frowned upon for you taking.

Cons

Extremely uncommunicative and irresponsible management. Its not unusual to have emails go unanswered for months due to trying to avoid a decision making paper trail. Borg like behavior with free thinkers shunned if not marching to the beat of the Borg drum. Management can never be questioned, especially with regards to their ideas. Management takes credit for ideas and submits them as their own. Heavy micromanagement environment. There really is no management at all. Promotions are handed out for management but mangers avoid managing.Business run on antiquated platforms due to resistance with investing more money back into the technical platforms. If your not in a St. Louis gang grew - your considered expendable. Promised IPO, but no chance of the company ever going IPO due to the clickbait revenue masking nature of the base company. Senior management busy working on their golden parachutes and do not care about the overall workforce. False appearance of a startup company. Just because your allowed to wear flip-flops and shorts, doesn’t make you a startup like company.

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