Medium reviews

- The company has no real strategy. Ev changes his mind constantly, and you'll feel the effects because the micromanagement at this company is next level. His whims dictate your team's plans, so your work will be scrapped every two months to start over on his latest idea. - Medium's gone full fascist. They used to "manage out" people who spoke up, and now they just deactivate them because everything's remote and they can disappear people with the click of a button. - Imagine working for a toddler billionaire who's surrounded himself with yes-men. Who do you lose more respect for: the toddler, or the craven adults who enable him? - Hands down, this is the most toxic and evil place I've ever worked. It's surprising because the majority of your co-workers are perfectly nice people. Some of them drink the Kool-Aid, and others are just trying to survive long enough to gtfo.

A lot of the people who made the company and culture great have left. Management actively fires high performing individuals with the excuse of "poor performance" and denies that it's actually because of retaliation. Medium had internally and externally promoted a culture of being "caring", "mindful", and "inclusive", which attracted a lot of employees who valued these things as well. People were asked for feedback because the company wanted to improve and "continuously improve". Because the employees believed in the organization's stated values and trusted that leadership did as well, people asked questions and started talking about the discrimination and inequities that were happening in our work place. Immediately, management started cleaning house. They fired peopled across the org (Design, Editorial, Engineering, Art, Marketing, etc.). They targeted those who had asked questions during meetings, and those who tried to make it a better work place by organizing a union. The reason that management gave for suddenly firing these individuals was "poor performance", despite the fact that 1. these individuals had been told they were doing well right up day they were fired and 2. all previous feedback (manager/peer reviews) is evidence to the contrary. The career ladder is completely opaque. Requirements and expectations for leveling and growth fluctuate as much as the product direction (a LOT). Reviews and feedback cycles mean nothing. They have gotten many people to join by saying that they do 6 month evals, so that you have an opportunity for promotion soon. Then afterwards, they tell people that (surprise!) there's some arbitrary rule (you've not been there for over a year), and that's the reason they can't be promoted this cycle. Getting good reviews during the performance evaluations does not mean 1. you are on track to getting promoted, or 2. that they will not fire you for "performance" reasons if you ask too many questions. You might have to get therapy to deal with the amount of insane stuff this place puts you through.