Seriously - STAY AWAY - Anonymous employee Eventbrite Employee Review

1.0
Apr 8, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Incompetent leadership aside, the folks on the ground are genuinely talented and lovely. Some of them have stuck around for years despite terrible management, uncompetitive salaries, and rounds upon rounds of layoffs.

Cons

You name it. Julia's all show, no substance. I'm still mystified that she and Kevin (who, as I was leaving, was taking up one of the office's very few conference rooms to conduct angel investing - get your own office, Kevin, you can afford it) managed to drive what was once a growing/thriving company so far into the ground. You want to be paid a laughably uncompetitive salary to reorg every 4 months and waffle about in the mess created by unclear strategic priorities? Step right up! The company laid off something like 60% of its workforce this year - will you be next? Other lowlights include: terrible leadership, managers who shouldn't be managers, lovely legalese masquerading as "transparency" from the CEO that belies just how out of her depth she is, a loud and disorganized nightmare of an open office plan, no direction or career growth to speak of unless you get a battlefield promotion. When I left EB to go work for another, smaller company, I got paid double my salary to do the same job. SERIOUSLY - double my salary at EB. Don't work here, there's no point.

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Eventbrite Response
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Apologies for the very bad experience you had but am glad for you and your pay raise. For clarity sake: we did have to part ways with almost half the company a couple weeks back and this stemmed from the massive impact COVID has had on the live events industry. This was certainly not something we planned for at the start of the year. - DH

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