senior account executive

inside sales representative

sales representative

entry level sales representative

account executive

Internet Brands

Pros

- Good first job, get some experience on your resume with decent pay but not good pay.

Cons

>under paid for your work
- for my position I was paid about 5 grand more than I was at my first job 5 or 6 years prior. Also promised a rocket plan with a 5 grand raise every 6 months. So far only given 1 of 4
> long hours (sometimes up to 200hrs a month)
> high turnover
> poor documentation
> bad communication throughout teams and management
> Deadlines not respectful of employees' work /life balance
> Often handed incomplete code bases or jira instructions and expected to know what the gaps in information are
> Poor communicators are more annoyed you don’t understand them rather than trying to improve what their communicating
> Management and devs are often spread thin in their tasks and asked to do too much. That strain is carried on to workers.
> PMs disorganized on who’s available, who and when to give tickets, and often times turnover leads to lack of information on who can be assigned to projects
> Speaking of turnover, we’ve had several people leave on teams who have specific information on projects that often times we don’t get the information that only they have for specific repos that slows down work flow and consequently can lead to lower levels of efficacy in the code.
**On a personal note, In my 2 years at IB at least 4 people have occupied Senior Director role and by the 4th time the position was open, it was blurred for a bit who was even in that position. It could have been 2 people but there was little communication and no one answered emails. This was an important position to talk to especially when contacting issues about management and about stress and pressure of the job so we could alleviate some of the deadlines. But because of turnover, every time a pressing work matter was explained and they could help remedy those conditions, a new boss comes in and we have to recontextualize the problems PMs and leads under them are putting on the team.
> Consistently told to go faster. I caught covid and didn’t take a day off because we needed to meet a deadline. That’s how much pressure I felt to get something done for the company by people over seeing me.
> There are also a large amount of employees on H1B visas at the company. I suspect that lower pay comes at the benefit of covering visa/green card sponsorship. But if you're a citizen, you don't benefit from this. However, as expressed by colleagues to me, they do feel the pressure to be more "behaved" and not push back on work loads or deadlines especially for fear it could cost them to lose their job which jeopardizes their status in the country.
> Current team lead and manager, while maintaining work formalities and skirting the bounds of what was appropriate, asked me questions trying to figure out what HR and I talked about in recent meeting regarding work relationships and job related stress. It was very uncomfortable.

Advice to Management

Be respectful of your employees
Learn better communication
Learn to use positive reinforcement for growth vs negative reinforcement which creates poor output
Stand up to upper management for better deadlines that respect work life balance
PAY PEOPLE WHAT THEY ARE WORTH

Internet Brands is one of those companies that continually recruits because the Human Resources department is ineffective and doesn't seem to care that the company's has a virtual revolving door with employees coming and going with the wind. This emphasizes the lack of respect they have for their staff  and their careers, and promoting those careers within the company. New employees pop up all the time and 9 out of 10 times nobody introduces them to the rest of the staff. And sometimes they last for a day, sometimes for 2 weeks and you wouldn't even have known their name from the time they came and went. Which is a problem when you're trying to manage a team. Should you say anything to correct the obvious problems, you become person non grata. It's best not to get involved in the mix at all and just realize what you are getting into from the beginning and then find a more professional company. That's what I did, but I wish I had done it sooner. 

There were times where new people were hired and they clearly had no experience in the role they were taking on nor did they have any work experience at all. Probably the worst experience was having a newly-hired ineffective manager show up and start making prissy personal comments about politics and how wonderful Nancy Pelosi is. (LOL). Seriously, she made this statement with a straight face in front of a full room of fellow work colleagues. That should have told me everything right there right then and there. Others complained to me about it because I'm also a manager, but I let it go until she just got 10 times worse from there and I just had to seek better opportunities than Internet Brands.

Internet Brands' lack of professionalism could be jarring. The woman who made the political comment was referred to by staffers as "clearly a sociopath." This is a general consensus within my team yet she is the one the company seems to champion to the dismay of the rest of the staff. Just know what you're walking into when you're walking into it at this company.

Internet Brands is a great place to get your foot in the door and figure out the basics of your role. The stakes are low and the pay is low compared to the industry as a whole but you will have a healthy work/life balance, be around enjoyable people, and have managers that work closely with you and want you to succeed. I would say higher ups are largely hands off, yet have a lot of power over your position so that can be very frustrating. They can do better about compensation and making employees feel appreciated. Overall have the impression that they are very cheap and that you are extremely replaceable. But since it's a big corporation, it is nice to not feel too much job insecurity. You can do the bare minimum and get by.

Internet Brands does not takes itself seriously and nor should you. That said, it can be a fun place if you're in the right department. Most of the people I saw in Sales (WebMD, Cars Direct) were miserable and uninspired most days. I worked in a department where I had a lot of independence. Not a bad gig but found something that paid 50% more than my salary with IB so I walked. If you are young and a year away from wrapping up college, then take a poorly paid job with IB. Build up your experience and contacts, then bail once you find something better. If you're older and looking for something more substantial in terms of pay and career mobility, keep looking.

Internet Brands is a sprawling collection of web properties built by other companies which were subsequently acquired. The tech is a disjointed mess as a result.

People who work at IB are generally nice, but we all know how underpaid we are and so there's a simmering resentment beneath the surface. The company is owned by private equity, so there's capital available for acquisitions, but management decided 10+ years ago to skimp on compensation to run leaner. 

As a result, the best people leave, and much of the workforce are young people just starting their careers and especially internationals on work visas. The lack of top talent and high turnover takes its toll on both the work product and the morale of those who stay. 

This company was recently acquired, and the transition has been nothing short of a disaster. What was once a stable job with great benefits, job security, and strong leadership has turned into a chaotic mess. Within just three months of the acquisition, there were two major rounds of layoffs—despite the CEO assuring employees that this would be a "positive change" with "growth opportunities."

Communication is nonexistent, and middle management seems completely lost, leaving employees anxious and uncertain about their future. On top of that, payroll errors were rampant, from incorrect health care and 401k deductions to employees being overcharged—yet there was little to no communication or accountability for these mistakes.



Company removed their review pages from Indeed which had more than 250 review, many negative, to put up this new page. Don't let them get away with it. Company offered less than had agreed during negotiations and hiring. The hiring process can take 6-8 weeks because of inefficient management. Two tiered structure with salaried and non-salaried employees. Their big slogan is "come to work in flip-flops and jeans." Don't fall for it. They pay $15-18/hour and are well below market rates. Most employees never stop looking for a better job! While I was there, half the team moved on within a few months. Poor tech means they throw everything up on the wall to see what sticks! Th

I can't speak for every job type in IB, but at least for developers if you are looking for entry level and would like to gain experience this is a great place to work! The compensation is low, but getting a chance to gain experience is worth more as a new developer.

 Depending on the department you work for the experience may vary, but overall it is very settle. I myself was never put into a position to be pressured by my manager or lead developer. Everyone in the team that I've worked with helped each other.

Once you become experienced, it might be time for you to search for a new company for better compensation and benefits.

Not sure where to start, you should work here if you don't value your time outside of work. Work here if you love being stressed for minimal pay. Work here if you love being overworked and your boss leaves hours early every Friday. So much potential in a company wasted by the incompetence of it's "leaders"... Want to work for free on weekends? Apply here. They will make sure you are " on call" for the weekend. Management is horrible, morale is horrible...the only possible benefit is remote...once that is over there is no shinning light here. Job security is a joke if you are a team lead, they will drop you in a heart beat. Apply at your own risk.

Your level of enjoyment for this company is a hit or miss. Every team runs things differently and have a different culture. If you're lucky, you'll be a part of a team that's caring and fun. Most people will leave this company in less than 2-3 years. I enjoy the work that I do, but there's no growth here. Everyone is underpaid and when you receive a promotion they'll put you on a rocket plan, which promises to pay you more over time, but sometimes these rocket plan are not executed as scheduled. If you're new and want some experience, it's a great place to start because there's lots of opportunity to learn.

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