Whisper Reviews

3.0

45% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)
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Michael Heyward

46% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Whisper has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Whisper employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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38 reviews
1.0
12 Jan 2018

No Money, No Vision, No One Left

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It started off as an authentic platform for users to build community, but that is a concept or a hobby not a business when you can't find a way to monetize or build revenue

Cons

NO MONEY: Their operating expenses are too high and revenue numbers are down. Finance constantly tells employees to go find a new job because they won't make payroll and services are literally being shut off because bills aren't being paid. The landlord even came into the building shouting at the CEO in front of all the engineers saying "you haven't paid rent in months!" NO VISION: There is no vision or leadership. Michael Heyward, the CEO has never had a job or went to college. He started this "company" or rather hobby when he was 23 with zero experience. He doesn't know how to set goals, forecast, manage investors or develop a product roadmap. There is no structure. No one knows what they are working on and the plan pivots several times a week merely because he feels like it with no rhyme or reason. The only other member of the "executive team" is Eric Yellin , CMO who comes in at 12p and leaves at 3p every day if he is in the office at all. No one knows quite what he does as he tends to just take walking meetings with people and tell them how incompetent Michael, the CEO is and that the company is going bankrupt but that he can afford to stick around since his wife is independently wealthy. It is an obscure & toxic environment these two have developed with no experience or leadership skills. NO ONE LEFT: They laid off 25 people in July 2017 but that was just the beginning, everyone has resigned. The COO and 14 others resigned the week after the lay-offs then a few months later the CTO, Director of Product, Director of HR, Director of Sales and Director of Editorial all left as well. There are maybe 18 people left working at this company and they are all spending their days looking for jobs or interviewing, myself included. I'm simply writing this review as a warning because somehow people are still applying to work for this place.

1.0
15 Oct 2014

Immature, unorganized workplace

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free food, flexible work schedule, great health benefits.

Cons

The environment is the worst. The CEO who is a super cool guy, should not be running this business. Not only is he rude and unappreciative to many of his employees (unless they are developers), but doesn't have any experience running a company like this- actually, he never worked a day in his life prior to Whisper. They spend money that could be used for a better functioning company. A lot of shadiness and immaturity here. If you want to work in a place that feels like high school, apply now.

1.0
4 Mar 2018
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Pros

There are a few people here who are lights in the darkness. You get free food, however employees still find ways to whine about it. Office is cool, but that's because it's how the CEO tries to keep employees at a company he's run into the ground.

Cons

The CEO and his puppet mouthpiece CMO are professional liars who manipulate the employees to think everything is fine. The reality is they're desperately throwing heaps of spaghetti at the wall hoping something sticks long enough to make a couple bucks. They're unethical and dishonest, lying to the the faces of employees daily and talking badly about them behind their backs like rotten children. The good reviews on here responding to the bad ones are up because employees were asked to write them. The execs laugh off bad reviews and then assign names to them so they can say "so and so is an idiot," and then promptly ask people to write a good review to bury it. They're just trying to mask the reality for sad employees who still have a morsel of faith left in these horrible people.

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