IAC Reviews in New York City, NY Area

Pros

There was a great work/life balance and true feeling of appreciation for employees. Seemless communication across all departments/levels of seniority.

Cons

There was a hiring freeze while I was employed, making it hard for me to stay within the company, though I really wanted to.

Pros

awesome building and environment to work in, always a lot of interesting people and events happening. Also throw a killer holiday party.

Cons

not a clear path for career development. questionable hr practices when letting people go, and not a lot of feedback as to how you are performing

Advice to Senior Management

clear review process and transparency in personnel decision making. being left in the dark is how you loss really good people.

Pros

IAC offers good benefits and the people are great to work for. They also provide free snacks and drinks every day.

Cons

The location is far from the subway and the neighborhood is a little shady. There are not enough stores/restaurants around for lunch.

Advice to Senior Management

I wish there was more career development at IAC. There needs to be some kind of mentor or someone who can help in determining your career path.

Pros

free snacks, bagel friday, great service by the facility folks, pretty building, great holiday party, great view from the 9th floor

Cons

poor management and leadership, extravagant spending on things that are not needed or necessary within the companies, young kids with huge sense of entitlement.

Advice to Senior Management

not sure what kind of advice i could give to the leadership of IAC since i know it wouldn't matter what i say here.

Pros

Interesting business model, forward thinking in the media space

Cons

Poor leadership at the top; favoritism; little respect for due process

Advice to Senior Management

its all about the business and not about the employees; for better retention think about the employees who are not the "favorites"

Pros

Everyone else except the management people are very talented engineers. The very few remaining good engineers are very friendly, helpful, and respectful. You can learn new stuff.

Cons

Management is dysfunctional, promotions are based on whether you work on the hottest project at the time of evaluation and not on your past full year of work. Annual review is useless. No career or salary growth unless you know the right people. Talent is unhappy and leaving rapidly. HR person is wonderful but powerless.

Advice to Senior Management

Lay off more managers. Hire more engineers. 2 layers of managers are enough for an efficient productive company. Focus on career growth. Stop giving useless gifts. Remuneration and company events matter more.

Pros

Great building, fantastic perks, young, smart and fun colleagues, diverse businesses, great reputation, solid, reliable business model, good corporate energy

Cons

Disjointed sub-divisions, poor management within those divisions, lack of communication and very little incentive to be more efficient and very little recognition of accomplishments and dedication.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a look at the management running some of your divisions. See to it that talented people are utilized to their fullest capacity, encouraged to be proactive, and rewarded for doing a job well.

Pros

Very smart people, generally very helpful and on the same page. Concerned with making sure work gets done in an efficient manner. Informal development incredibly effective.

Cons

Lower compensation than some other comparable jobs, though not embarrassingly so. Formal development opportunities could be better.

Advice to Senior Management

Have a strong strategy for short, medium, and long term. Ensure that employees are communicated with proactively, not just in response to events, if business outlook and processes change.

Pros

You will definitely have an opportunity to get your feet wet and learn a few things particularly if you are in the early stages of your career

Cons

There was too much politics being played out in the company and very little time spent in actually working towards achieving the stated objectives

Advice to Senior Management

Get people who actually have leadership and management skills to manage the people. And try to implement a meritocracy, favoritism is bound to take the company down.

Pros

In the correct corporate function, this can be an excellent place to build your resume and show you worked at rapidly growing sexy internet business which comes complete with an excellent calling card to meet starving startup businesses and the VC community. The people at IAC are ordinarily the smartest in the room. Work life balance is a priority and compensation is competitive.

Cons

While Diller and his cabinet are sophisticated deal makers they are absolutely terrible business managers. For this reason, the business has had no strategy for well over 2 years and the firm is a dysfunctional disaster of arrogant entrepreneurs trading at 3.5x earnings (versus 6.5x of comparable businesses). The corporate environment has no teaming and it is an every man for themselves competition.

Advice to Senior Management

Put in place older and more seasoned business managers with experience in large organically growing businesses. Or, dividend the cash and sell the business to a PE at a hight stock price while there is still an IAC business model.