Pros
Curiosity Stream is positioned in a unique position - it’s unlike any other streaming service. If that were properly leveraged in its marketing, it would be more successful. Benefits are fairly decent. The health insurance is difficult to use, but if you elect the HSA, Curiosity actually contributes to it. That’s a big plus. I work with some of the most talented people I’ve ever worked with. (See Cons as to why they’re all leaving.)?
Cons
Curiosity Stream is currently experiencing a (deserved) exodus. I’m sure more of these reviews will be posted in the coming weeks and months. There are a few key reasons why Curiosity is seeing this happen: - Pay at Curiosity is well below market rate for all roles. Those leaving are seeing 30-50-% pay bumps at new jobs. - Curiosity is unstable. It continues to acquire services like One Day University and Learn 25, but doesn’t leverage them.. Content acquisitions and “originals” continue to underperform. The stock price has tanked from nearly $16 to under $3 in less than a year. This means that equity means very little - for low pay plus equity in a bad stock, there’s no financial upside to being here. - Management is toxic. Men are continually favored over women, female colleagues are spoken down to and devalued and deplatformed. Leadership is often made aware of behavior that crosses lines into workplace harassment by bad actors who don’t work well with others or act in good faith. (Again, the newly hired HR and leadership have fielded these complaints before.) - Zero transparency in business practices. The CEO doesn’t have an answer for the company’s floundering stock prices and insists on blaming it on market volatility, which doesn’t hold water. Curiosity needs a drastic shift in leadership to recover both shareholder and employee trust. - You don’t have the tools to succeed. Curiosity doesn’t have budget for anything you need. It’s masked as being scrappy and entrepreneurial, all while the lone marketing department runs wild with massive budgets and over-inflated CPA’s. Co-workers often complain to one another about a lack of resources. It’s gotten worse as people have been quitting. - There is zero mobility. The company’s too small.
