Medium Reviews

- Nothing major has been shipped in at least six months because the product org has been decimated, and no one knows how to get a team to execute. Substack is eating our lunch. - High attrition of people that have been at Medium for more than two years because there are no career growth opportunities or support from upper management. Constant reorgs and talking about how to organize without any end in sight. There's been a reorg promised since Coronavirus hit. - No progress on any initiative because there is little documentation or attention paid of what was tried and learned before. There lack of progress is because the same ideas get fails with similar prior results, then the company pivots to something else, and completely forgets what they tried. - No transparency on pay equity and pay bands. People Ops gets defensive and awkward when pushed for a resolution. - No realistic plan to achieve profitability. There are targets that sound nice and tell a good story, but are unachievable in the timeline they set out, and there’s no connection to what the engineers are working on. Medium will NOT IPO in 1-2 years. - Only lip service to DEI initiatives with no clear path for action and zero URM C-level executives in the 8 years the company has been around.

Toxic political culture. Very top-down. The team roadmaps are decided by the CEO who should be focusing on how to grow the company instead. The strategy kept changing each month. Just when you thought things were settling on a vision, they'd announce a new initiative and never explained why the previous strategy was discarded. Management is young and doesn't speak up enough to push back. Newer leadership hires brought a culture of toxicity and unprofessionalism to the company. The company doesn't care about its employees. It doesn't care about helping them grow. It only cares about making the executives look good.