Second Rate Content Farm - Web Developer ContentLEAD Employee Review

1.0
Nov 18, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-In the heart of Boston's financial district -"Boss" leaves to Europe and Arizona often -Young environment where everyone is around 24-25 -Drinking parties in the office

Cons

-Very low pay for work (unless you're in sales) I could easily make twice as much per hour freelancing than working 50 hours here. The writers who do the most constant work are paid next to nothing. -While the product works in concept, the fact that they need to push out hundreds of articles each day causes them to become a conglomeration of many other articles that already exist. In addition, the writers and account managers don't really understand high level SEO strategies and techniques, so the articles are poorly optimized. Therefore, the small business clients who pay thousands of dollars for this product, never see any significant conversions. -The web developers are the only ones who know about SEO and because of this, they are forced to take on the brunt of the client workload and usually perform additional tasks for free, in order to prevent the client from canceling. -The boss doesn't really understand SEO and doesn't get tough with the writers when they continue to deliver poor results or offer topics that the clients don't want.

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ContentLEAD Response
13y
Thanks for the feedback - we are happy that our "get to know you"staff parties are popular. Based on the points you highlighted we are sure you will be pleased to hear that we now have a focus group meeting regularly to push core product development across the group - which includes but is not limited to technical integration practices and website builds to provide ever increasing ROI for clients.

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5.0
Dec 5, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Investment from upper management in your career advancement - Company pays for Google Analytics certification - Amazing/fun company culture - Get to know you hours sponsored by the company - Supportive co-workers - Collaborative environment - WFH flexibility - Opinions heard by upper management - Great work-life balance - Process and procedure is well defined for all internal steps

Cons

- Busy schedules - Can have a lot on your plate at times

2.0
Jul 19, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent coworkers. Kind of like the camaraderie you feel with fellow hostages or the occupants of a sinking ship -- you don't know each other too well, but you're all in it together. Upward mobility. Easy to move up in the company if you're willing to work a lot more for the same amount of money.

Cons

They don't know how to treat their employees. Everyone is laughably underpaid, but expected to work longer hours and be more productive than other employees making the same salary. Writers are driven to near insanity, churning out content that it often rejected by clients. I've seen writers have breakdowns. Vacation hours accrue at a minuscule rate. If you save up all year to have the maximum number of days available in January or February, so that you can take more than one or two vacation days, your boss will suddenly be unable to approve your leave. They have no concept of work/life balance, and burden everyone with workloads that mean you must take your work home and work through weekends. You will never be paid overtime or offered any compensation for working past closing time. I wouldn't recommend this job to anyone but my worst enemy. It's a test of mental strength working here. Anyone who can get past a year is amazing. But people who stick it out past that strike me as odd -- after a year of working like a beaver you could definitely find a position with better pay and much better benefits. So why are you still stuck at CL in an entry level position?

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