IAC Employee Reviews about "senior management"

Pros

The pay is on the higher end of market price. Good 401k.

Cons

Senior management calls IAC a family which is a way to manipulate the staff to put work ahead of everything else. Long hours, late nights and lots of work on the weekends. Most of senior management has been in place for over a decade. As a result, there are outdated systems resulting in lots of work for the staff. Senior management has a short temper, and will take it out on the staff. We routinely hear senior management cursing out direct reports in their office. Lots of layoffs. People disappear without an explanation. Management is manipulative. Do not share information about your life with them. They will use it against you. Management shoots down ideas brought up in meetings discouraging innovation and brain storming. It’s their way or the highway. Management leaves staff out of meetings. This approach makes it hard to get visibility and promotion opportunities. Everyone acts like robots. There is no camaraderie in the office.

Pros

Great place to work for many people

Cons

Management is cut throat and doesn’t care about advancement

Pros

Line staff are great and easy to work with Still a small company Able to contribute on tangible, visible products

Cons

Upper management changes strategy frequently and it often feels like they're using a dart board to pick the current direction No vision, other than trying to copy others

Pros

Flexible Time Off and Working Hours. Ask.com is small enough company to be able to learn lot of things. Good Benefits. Current Direction is correct focus but then it has only been few months into it.

Cons

Senior Management does not what is technology and they are leading Ask.com Search Technology Group. Constant Change in Direction. Big Issues between main and satellite office with communication completely broken between them. Bonuses are never paid as promised.

Pros

- Paycheck - Having a job

Cons

- Horrible management style full of command and insults - Gossips - Hire and fire - Toxic environment - Too many to list....

Pros

APN offers great challenges because of the fast-paced environment but without unreasonable pressure from peers nor management. People really work as a team and do their best to deliver great solutions to partners and end users.

Cons

Cynism often creeps up in discussions and can cause demotivation among employees. Upper management could do better at keeping people in the loop and presenting meaningful ideas.

Pros

For IAC Applications only. For the most part, people working here are smart and fun to work with. You also get summer Fridays, unlimited PTO, happy hours, etc.

Cons

Top management lack transparency even though in every company event they would keep emphasizing on transparency. CEO of IAC placed someone as CFO here. Terrible management style and zero people skills (no experience in managing people, constantly throw people under the bus in meetings, ask repetitive and meaningless questions but don’t take any responsibilities). The existing finance team basically all left because they can’t stand the CFO. When management makes a bad hiring decision like this, it trickles down.

Pros

Flex hours are great if you have kids or a family, nice office space, free parking, summer fridays.

Cons

Management on all levels are completely bias; From CEO(s) - why two? - down to all of their inner circle of executives, each of them will only promote the ones who think will follow their command without questioning authority so some day they can become one of them; The business is the business, it's ok, we still make good money here, but the people here are clearly unmotivated as most are looking and many are quitting.

Pros

Learned a lot during a summer internship program. Management was very hands off and allows us to be creative in our approach to the problem. Worked on some high profile projects as well.

Cons

Not that much employee engagement. Interns didn't know any of the other employees that well.

Pros

Relaxed and casual place makes it easy to focus on work. Friendly employees. Diverse work force, in age and ethnic backgrounds.

Cons

Steady reorganizations and changes in management can be disconcerting. Changes in vision take time to develop and get communicated throughout organization.