Great company and people-- not great pay - Recensione dipendente - Writer presso ShortForm

Decent pay, good management, clear structure and processes.

sometimes the work is monotonous

-Flexibility: You can basically work whenever you want from wherever you want. It's easy to take days off and to take vacation time -Coworkers: Every person I've worked with has been wonderful. There are many kind and intelligent people working here.

-The founder is condescending, rarely responds to emails, and doesn't show respect to the people who run his company for him. He looks down on anyone who isn't upper management, even though the company was literally built on freelance writers. His attitude is basically: if you don't like it, you can leave, rather than taking any feedback into consideration. -Most employees (except for upper management, I think) are paid as 1099 independent contractors. This means that we need to pay self-employment taxes and don't get benefits. However, we're expected to meet a certain number of hours, attend live meetings, and meet deadlines. We're treated like W-2 workers but paid as 1099 workers. -The company used to produce high-quality book guides and content that were human-written and well-researched. Unfortunately, the founder jumped on the AI train as soon as it came out and now only a small portion of the books are human-written and the rest are AI. This also led to a few teams being laid off completely. -The work here is highly intensive. This means that it's difficult to work more than 25 hours or so per week, even when you sit at your desk for 40. A brain can only perform deep work for so many hours a day. Despite that, employees are expected to constantly pump out new project ideas. -Compensation isn't great, and the self-employment taxes make it even worse. Job duties and titles are changing constantly, and pay doesn't increase to reflect the additional duties and training required to do the new work. Many people who signed up to be writers are now writers, prompt engineers, researchers, and more... all on a writer's pay rate.