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PriceGrabber.com Reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(53 total reviews)
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Steve Krenzer

34% approve of CEO

22% positive business outlook

PriceGrabber.com has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 53 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PriceGrabber.com employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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53 reviews
2.0
23 Mar 2015

Sinking Ship

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Casual work environment - Great work/life balance - Snacks (plus breakfast on Friday) - Vacation/Sick

Cons

PriceGrabber just recently had massive layoffs due to losing existing business and lack of new business. Although great work/life balance, the company hasn't done anything substantial in years, making it increasingly irrelevant and dependent on one division. The pay is not competitive, nor is the environment, so a lackadaisical, complete lack of urgency is commonplace. Because the environment is so laid back, almost everything is done behind closed doors. No one has the guts to make waves, even when completely necessary, because the environment they have created. It makes for a very frustrating place to learn and conduct business. Not a place to jumpstart a career.

1.0
16 Mar 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

it was fun while it lasted

Cons

I was part of 35 (yes thirty-five) employees laid off on Friday 05/13/15 as the company continues to hang on for dear life. Google has shrunk PG's profits and the entire feed management department has been outsourced.

2.0
7 Oct 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The recent mass exodus of talent and leadership, followed by an unexpected round of layoffs, has cast a major shadow of doubt among current employees. Once upon a time PriceGrabber was a highly energetic and successful company driven by intelligent hard working people who created a quality product and provided outstanding service. During these years of prosperity the office was vibrant and filled with enthusiasm, creating a work space people genuinely looked forward to being a part of on a daily basis. Happy hours, First Fridays, a bustling game room, collaboration, strong leadership, good life/work balance, Friday breakfast, Westwood office location, transparency, a viable business model, commission structure and friendly people were just a few of the reasons PG was a good place to call a second home. Unfortunately, those days have long since passed and any of the few remaining positives listed above don’t outweigh the lengthy, and constantly growing, list of negatives.

Cons

The technology and infrastructure are outdated and the product itself is no longer compelling. Teams are understaffed and lacking resources. Mediocre middle management has ascended to the top though attrition, not merit, and this has lead to bad business decisions and poor employee morale. Additionally, the ratio of manager to employees is completed skewed and many managers have just a single person who report to them daily, meaning one persons “job” is to make sure one other person is doing their job. The New Accounts department, which has been an essential part of the core business for the last 15 years, was recently deemed unnecessary due to a shift in business focus, and a majority of the department was laid off. New products being focused on and developed are 2-3 years late and are still not functional after nine months of implementation. Taking a long time is not something uncommon to PG and a common complaint from site users is that the load time will time out, or takes unreasonably long to return searches for basic queries.

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