Refinery29 reviews

Executives refuse to properly train and hire directors with experience to fit the titles, favoritism is the name of the game at R29. If you have a large social following and are deemed a "favorite" you can choose your title, project and team. The idea of a director having experience or being trained to lead a team is insignificant to higher management, the quality of the content, supervision and training of the junior staff suffer as a result. Titles are given out like candy (with salaries and bonuses) that are far exceed the experience of people in senior and director roles. As a result the junior staff works exceptionally hard for pennies and are told to be thankful for even receiving a bonus. R29 is inspiring and its easy to get caught up in the startup vibe, unfortunately its lack in management and support for hard working experienced staff fail to live up to its mission. Don't expect to be mentored by directors or ask questions, this is a place you go in do the work and get the experience.

This place is tanking, despite what it seems like from the outside. Yes, the content is pretty great and you'll have some fun creating in but internally, it's horrendous. Terrible choices made by management and executives at the expense of great talent. Huge pay disparity between a lot of people with the same roles/titles/duties. Some get promotions and raises are handed out more than once a year, while others can go above and beyond and get nothing in return. Certain teams have an endless budget for frivolous spending, while others can barely get a few bucks to build team morale. Executives bully their way up the chain to get their way. Major lack of diversity in staff and content - some people care, other people seem to think there are bigger fish to fry. They've also started laying people off, so things don't seem too safe anymore.