IAC Reviews

Pros

Perks, benefits are good. good employee motivation. employee recognition is good. Good communication from top down leadership. Global brand presence which is good on your resume.

Cons

Need solid strategy to turn ship around. Employee morale needs to be boosted. Too many overlapping roles within the company. Unless you have a good boss, very minimal involvements from HR coordinators for your career growth

Advice to Senior Management

Forcing employees to do a job is not worth for long run. Listen to employee's suggestions (product, marketing ideas) that are well proven and revenue positive plans.

Pros

- Decent benefits
- Pay is ok
- Good amt of paid time off.
- Happy hours, events + outings
- Birthday cake + office parties
- Easy to get by with little effort.
- A lot of fun, good natured colleagues.

Cons

- Innovation not encouraged, frequently shunned. Status quo all the way.
- Same business model for 10 years (not so good when you're an Internet co).
- Hiring, rewards, and promotions deeply mired in cronyism, nepotism; merit, skill, talent not valued.
- Big ego management lacking in substance; lots of unstable people in high-level positions.
- Recent grads with huge sense of entitlement bestowed authority over those with proven expertise.
- High attrition rate. Little effort to retain talent; HR focus diverted to hiring the cheap and compliant.
- What was once an entrepreneurial environment is now a very typical MBA-run corporation.
- Attempts at trendy office space failed (satellite office).

Advice to Senior Management

Innovate or become obsolete. Listen to those who are leaving, not those focused on self-preservation. Focus should be on obtaining qualified executives with proven leadership skills, who will in turn attract and retain talent. No need to hire so many cheap "worker bees." Quality employees who are appropriately rewarded (not just monetarily) will perform faster and produce better work -- but will not stick around to work under dictatorial managers who allow ego to take precedence over experience.

Pros

Positive culture of innovation. Pays market rates. Once had great perks with all the brands under IAC.

Cons

Once one of the biggest internet companies with the likes of Expedia, Match, Ticketmaster. Now trying to compete with the likes of Google, Yelp, Facebook. It's sad to see that BD's vision never came to fruition.

Advice to Senior Management

Innovation and vision is needed.

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

Flexibility, good people and growth potential. Lot of expertise and global leader in Automotive interior space.

Cons

Benefits for employees need some revision.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work and would love to see flying with colors.

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

- decent benefits package
- good work environment
- paid vacation time is 4 weeks after 2 years and 6 weeks beyond 7 years

Cons

- continued good work doesn't necessarily translate to promotions and/or pay hikes
- immigrant employees are milked - quite often have to work long hours, no pay hikes, bonus amount is too low in comparison to industry standard

Advice to Senior Management

- focus on core products more
- give more incentives for employees at the lower rung of the ladder to work harder - like, reward hard working employees with more cash bonus or pay hikes and/or extra time offs

Pros

The work life balance and company perks were ok, and the pay was definitely competitive. Lots of really great people made coming to work fun.

Cons

There was not much innovative going on at IAC for an internet company. You are better off going to a different internet company if you want to have a successful, progressive Internet career.

Advice to Senior Management

Changing strategy every year or so leads to confusion and no one wanting to rock the boat, which means no innovation.

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.