AOL Reviews

Pros

Excellent atmosphere, especially for younger people. Interns are treated with respect and are given plenty of meaningful work opportunities. Company sponsors several fun events on a nearly weekly basis.

Cons

Pay could be a little better for interns - its a little on the lower side compared to what you would get at a similar company.

Advice to Senior Management

I think that the company should continue its initiatives and perhaps be a bit more aggressive in pushing them out. I believe more effort should be put into increasing awareness of the company's rebranding.

Pros

good benefit, flex times, work-life balance

Cons

poor senior leadership, leading company on a wrong track

Advice to Senior Management

be smart

Pros

Enjoyable projects, great people, nice benefits.

Cons

Too much work with no great return.

Pros

good environment and people make me comfortable. Also there are many different department that I can work for all different things

Cons

current aol structure does not have clear strategy to complete other competitor and I am not sure how we can win it

Advice to Senior Management

Turn it around might take some times but it could get better in quick with taltented people in inside of company

Pros

I get to work from home, fantastic benefits, and my particular group of co-workers are some of the friendliest, most helpful people I have ever worked with; the teamwork amidst this group of employees is absolutely incredible, and unsurpassed by any group of folks I have ever worked with before. And in my particular position, they are EXTREMELY flexible with scheduling issues, requested days off, sick days, and emergency needed leave etc.

Cons

In my particular position, I have absolutely no way to advance my career. When they do hire, it is usually from outside the company, and there is no promotional scale or ladder for me to climb, in the area that I work.

Advice to Senior Management

Would be nice if you guys promoted from in-house a little more often. And sometimes communication between managers and us folks could be improved on. I'd like to hear it when I'm doing a good job... AND when I'm not.

Pros

Great benefits. Great work environment.

Cons

management changes often and therefore strategy has changed/conflicted in past 4 years.

Pros

All the benefits of a startup (fast decision making, lots at stake) without worrying about where the money is coming from.

Cons

Reaching back to draw from our legacy as a great engineering company requires making sense of the Time Warner years, and that's tough.

Pros

Leadership in Technologies Management (most are strong). Co-workers are collaborative, smart, and hardworking. Willingness to look at new technology and use it where it makes sense. Willingness to invest in folks in the areas they want to expand to. As long as your work is getting done very open to work-life balance issues; is about getting the work, not about being in the office for X number of hours.

Cons

Company is clearly in the middle of a transition still. While we are making great strides on the turnaround and comeback, there is still a fair chance that we'll not be successful and get broken up, sold to private equity, or just close the doors. Really don't think it will happen (otherwise I'd leave) but there is certainly that chance!

Pros

good benefits, decent salary, good colleagues

Cons

terrible middle and senior management

Advice to Senior Management

stop changing the org chart every 5 minutes, look after good people, kill the middle management layer that stops anything getting done, theres always triple the managers than people doing the work.

Pros

Great work life balance and people

Cons

Unstable environment. New leadership talks a lot but fails in implementation

Advice to Senior Management

Utilize resources better.