WebMD Employee Reviews
Out of 49 WebMD employee reviews, 49% were positive. The remaining 51% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping WebMD improve their work culture.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
It won't get better until th current leadership leaves
Managing, inspiring, communicating, team building and problem solving.
The company was bought via leveraged buyout, so the mindset is "repaying debt", not "growth". The revenue/performance is high despite cuts, but the company continues to remove benefits, doesn't fill empty positions, replaces full teams with offshore workers & pushes for uncompensated "promotions"
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Company does not compensate employees fairly despite record profits. Greedy shareholders.
WebMD needs to catch up with the market. They will but in the meantime they will lose good people.
I make the top of the salary range for my position at WebMD but could make at least 1/3 more if I want to an ad agency
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
everyone is overworked and miserable. it's a lot of complaining
In early years at the company, progress was fast and skill could be showcased and rewarded. Over the last 3 years bureaucracy & red tape (in builds/deployments) have scared off new devs and slowed projects to a halt. This was implemented without clear reason or a measure to gauge effectiveness.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
You should know total disconnect with having managers in another country hard to communicate with them logically
More dynamic and talented managers who know how to problem solve and work as a team
A new CEO who understood the company would be nice.
hire more people - stop overloading everyone
The new parent company is toxic. The mindset is clearly to gut the company, replace as many positions as possible with offshore, continue removing benefits, leave vital positions empty & generally make short-sighted decisions. They could at least reward existing employees for keeping the lights on.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Training for people to conduct interviews.
Not of interest to me to improve the interview process
it's long, you meet with a ton of people, but they don't give you an accurate sense of what you're actually going to find at the company at all
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
WebMD and Medscape are run on an extremely old system. Its band aid after band aid, and beyond frustrating for developers and coders.
Get rid of current management. There are far too many problems to write in this little box
more people to get the work done right and quickly.
Properly compensate the employees who are left. The company mindset is that of "reduction" despite continued solid revenue & performance. If the mindset can't change, at least reward employees with a fraction of the savings who are taking on 2 or more closed positions and new uncompensated tasks.
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
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