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Spiceworks Ziff Davis

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Avoid at all costs - Sales Director Spiceworks Ziff Davis Employee Review

1.0
Jul 7, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The coffee machine in the UK office was off the charts good. + Every company you work for after will be better.

Cons

The company mismanagement, corporate strategy and work culture that is allowed to permeate in this organisation is shocking. avoid at all costs. -Unsuccessful US business units that treat their staff with distain rule the roost. -Their figurehead CEO will brag "anyone can buy a business for a dollar and make 75 cents" whilst overseeing tanking revenue streams and profits. -Their parent company (J2 Global) will write blank cheques for unlimited M&A to ensure they pay the bear minimum in corporate income tax. This core strategy allows the most toxic "its you or me" culture. -Those responsible for M&A, will ignore due diligence, will take backhanders (feel free to google this) from the worst run companies that join the Ziff portfolio padding out revenue streams for the following few months before the collapse under the strain of the most rudderless-ly arrogant cringe worthy leadership The 40% margin $16 million business I left due to lack of support; continual bureaucratic roadblocks; awful mismanagement at the highest level will effectively cease to trade in it's core service in 2023. Ziff will blundered a combined 16 million dollar revenue stream in 2 years. But don't worry, they will simply buy another business in the market to compensate, downsize - rinse and repeat. The business culture is not to build revenue streams; create a great working culture or increase profit/ebitda organically it is to "grow through acquisition" in order to over-inflate share value. This strategy then dictates the work culture. Toxic. Avoid

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