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2.0
Oct 31, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Fun co-workers if you are in your 20s. I could basically make my own schedule. It was also a good thing to add to my resume as it adds some keywords and ideas that are hot in the industry right now. Beer sometimes.

Cons

The qualities they stress to writers (quality in writing) means very little as the ultimate goal is hitting quota every month (275-300 articles). As long as that happens, nothing else matters. The work load is laughably out of balance with the paycheck. Nearly every week I was working close to 50 hours and still needed supplemental income to pay my bills (and this is after a raise from my entry level pay). The only reason I took a promotion, which came with a massive workload increase, was to make a couple extra bucks in every paycheck because there is no other way to get a raise. There is also a massive lack of communication between departments. As a senior writer my work load could be changed by five different people at any time, often because someone didn't do their job correctly. Miscommunication led to me writing 30 articles for a client that cancelled months prior, wasting my time. There were multiple times where I know writers were asked for feedback and nothing ever came of it. When beer every week/event in the office is a major selling point on your culture, that's a problem.

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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
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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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