Considering the decrease in market share, bleak outlook on company's future, and recent drama surrounding the CEO, is there a reason to take the offer if all goes well? Position is within their ads team, which is their main source of revenue.
Pandora is still a thing?
Apparently.
75-80mils of users, over 1 billion in ads revenue, one of the top mobile apps in terms of user engagement
My mom loves their charm bracelets.
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lol different pandora
Got rid of pandora last year. Now I pay $29/mo for HiFi Tidal and love it.
I work on Ads at Pandora and really love it. We have a massive opportunity as ears have moved from radio to streaming and ad spend hasn't caught up. We also have announced an investment from Sirius who are certainly interested in ads biz as well so it's an interesting time. Around 20% of Americans listen to Pandora every month and the new subscription service has received critical acclaim tho mass marketing hasn't really landed. come if you are motivated and looking for and interesting challenge. if you want a low risk low yield oppty look elsewhere.
Thanks for your thoughtful and insightful answer! That helps a lot. Google search returned nothing but negative things about the company so I was a little concerned. I have the interview this week so fingers crossed!
my company has dealt with Pandora's ad fulfillment, and it was a disaster. it's a little unclear from outside perspective whether it's malicious or just incompetence, but either way, tread with caution. I can't tell you to take it or not, it depends on what your alternative is. They are definitely a big player in the space, probably has interesting problems on ad side and have enough money in the bank to survive lawsuits against it.
The ads team is full of truly awesome people, but the company is dying, morale is going down, and the management is not good. Pay isn't that great either and there's no retention adjustments in sight even though the engineering drain has started in full force.
I have a friend there who hates it, but it sounds like an individual manager issue.
The scariest thing is Pandora is a company that has lost CEO, CFO, COO, CTO, CMO, and CIO (did I miss one?) in the last 8 months. I adore the culture and there are a lot of talented people on what feels like a sinking ship that the captains and officers have all snuck off in the lifeboats. That said, Pandora has been quite resilient in the past and still has a massive user base. Problem is that those who led the resurgence aren't with Pandora anymore.
I see that as a positive sign, these very same people could not turn the company in the right direction and missed many opportunities. I deeply respect most of them, but business needs fresh people.
I use Pandora often and like the product.