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private:videa
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=884097
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Mar 2nd, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Videa
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Project Manager
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It was nice while it lasted.
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Great hours, WFH, great benefits
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Doesn't exist anymore, so long
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0.0
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4.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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884097
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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Videa
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private:videa
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=884097
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Jan 26th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Videa
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Atlanta, GA
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Company shut down
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Was good to work there
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Stifling at times over the years
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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0.0
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4.0
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4.0
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4.0
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4.0
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5.0
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3.0
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884097
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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4.0
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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Videa
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private:videa
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=884097
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Jan 21st, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Videa
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Customer Success Manager (CSM)
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Atlanta, GA
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Too bad it didn't last
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Great people to work with.
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Company was dissolved which was a shame. Doing good work
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0.0
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2.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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884097
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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Videa
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private:videa
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=884097
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Sep 17th, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Videa
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Cloud Engineer
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Almost made it
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Aggressive technology utilization and implementation
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Shut down by the parent company
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0.0
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4.0
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3.0
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4.0
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1.0
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4.0
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4.0
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884097
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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Videa
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private:videa
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=884097
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Feb 3rd, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Videa
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Project Manager
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Atlanta, GA
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The End
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It was a great run.
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We have all been told that Videa is shutting down at the end of March and that we are all losing our jobs.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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1.0
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3.0
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2.0
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5.0
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1.0
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5.0
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1.0
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884097
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Open
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Thank you.
“Over the years, the company made significant progress in the programmatic television space, but it is no longer sustainable to continue operations. We thank our extraordinary employees for their hard work and will continue to provide resources to help them through this transition,” the company said in a statement.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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4.0
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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Videa
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private:videa
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=884097
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Jan 26th, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Videa
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Software Engineer
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Atlanta, GA
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A Bright Start and a Dim Future
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Leadership team does honestly wish for the best
Great technology base
Pay & Benefits tend to be great, though some benefits have gotten worse over the years, they are still better than most places.
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The realities of the business (it still operates at a loss), the hiring freeze in Technology due to the sales process, as well as the most likely result of that sales process results in a very dim future:
1. Major downsizing through attrition in technology from its start in 2018, and and increased dependence on offshore resources resulted in increased workload for onshore team members
2. Again, due to above, most new projects are allocated to offshore resources, and will probably be for the foreseeable future.
3. The brain drain effect is real
The reality is that Videa operates at a loss heavily subsidized from its corporate parent, though those losses have been less and less every year. With the loss of that subsidy, they will have to raise prices (unlikely, considering there's already downward pressure on pricing, especially with the loss of CoxReps as a corporate sister and CMG as a corporate parent) or cut costs (the major cost to cut being staffing).
Videa will not survive in its current form, and the new Videa will be a much smaller company that will not be a great place to work, especially for non-management Tech employees (I can definitely seeing them being over-worked without the capacity to actually take on new fun projects, a trend that already started, especially in the later months of 2019)
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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7.0
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3.0
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2.0
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4.0
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1.0
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2.0
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3.0
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884097
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Open
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Videa, at this point, does not have a compelling story in the marketplace of why anyone would use them versus other vendors:
Campaign Performance is a major driver of why agencies choose to route orders to Videa, but Videa honestly doesn't have a compelling buy-side product offering that makes it "sticky". Once the buy side vendors (MediaOcean, Freewheel, Hudson) decide to compete with you on this, you will lose ALL of the reason why an agency would prefer Videa over sending orders directly to the Reps or Stations
Videa has the capability of being a better Medialine or Reppak for the Rep Firms, or an equivalent service for self-repped Station Groups, but Videa never really positioned themselves as providing that service to the Reps, and Videa will probably pay for it.
Using Videa requires more work in many cases than using alternatives (since you have to do the work in both traffic and Videa), and Videa has yet to provide a compelling answer to this, even though the technology teams identified what it would take to reduce some of this, it was mostly ignored by senior management. This will come back and bite Videa in the rear, especially as they lost a lot of their in house resources that had the ideas that were being ignored.
One of the dumbest things you can do is put a HIRING FREEZE in TECHNOLOGY at a TECH STARTUP. It's basically the beginning of a slow death spiral. Plus the plan to essentially have only a skeleton crew of tech resources in house overseeing contract resources offshore? Yeah, that's idiotic. Contract resources might be technologically knowledgeable, they have very little in terms of independent research into what's going on the industry or new ideas to make existing products better for the industry or Videa (and not talking about UI tweaks or performance improvements, but new product lines that will make Videa more compelling). Product and SLT (especially the more senior staff) isn't versed well enough into Videa's technology capabilities to know what is even possible with minimal investment, instead preferring to build out things that are technically expensive to build with little improvement of (Why should I use Videa instead of just using WO Connect, Medialine, or Reppack? (as a station/rep) And why should I send orders to Videa when I can send them to WO Connect or the Reps directly, since my existing tools already provide Videa's capabilities and work on more than just US-based broadcast TV.
So while I see Videa probably continuing to exist, probably with more revenue than today, and maybe even becoming profitable at some point, it will be a very different Videa, and it definately won't be a fun tech company to work at. It already wasn't (7 full time engineers on 2 very small teams a technology company does not make), and the pain was self-inflicted.
Now, as a side note, I don't blame the low level management, since their hands were equally tied, and would probably agree. I also don't blame Shereta, she's been the kindest leader I've ever worked under, I don't think she realized how much certain decisions were screwing things over and making Videa unpleasant to work at as a technologist.
I was really hoping that the sales process would go well and Videa would be able to become an independent Atlanta tech company with a strong technology department, but its already lost its standing as an Atlanta tech company, since their technology is mostly built overseas by people who don't really understand the industry realities AT ALL.
Your loss Videa.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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4.0
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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Videa
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private:videa
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=884097
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Oct 11th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Videa
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Technology
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Atlanta, GA
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Not sure where we go
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Great work/life balance. Employees are helpful
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Company not positioning for future
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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3.0
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2.0
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5.0
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2.0
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1.0
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4.0
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1.0
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884097
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Open
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Management does not help assuage employee's angst. It is getting old.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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2.0
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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Videa
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private:videa
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=884097
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Aug 27th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Videa
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Anonymous
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Atlanta, GA
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Had a good start for first year
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Fun office, birthday lunches, ping pong
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Lost it's way somewhere....guess would have served better to have outside media perspective
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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1.0
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APPROVE
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1.0
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3.0
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5.0
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3.0
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2.0
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5.0
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2.0
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884097
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Open
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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4.0
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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Videa
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private:videa
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=884097
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Jul 8th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Videa
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5 star reviews are fake - no one would give a 5 star unless it was years ago
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Great benifits. People who do nothing can stay for years if they got the connection to upper management
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Terrible management team from CEO and down to the directors.
Fake open door policies and fake reviews
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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4.0
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1.0
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5.0
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1.0
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1.0
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5.0
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1.0
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884097
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Open
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How could you possibly sleep at night when you have mistreated so many good people? Do you know that almost everyone left would not be surprised and would possibly cheer for it if the company bites the dust? You should ponder on your management mistakes for the rest of your life. You brought shame to the Cox family.
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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Videa
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private:videa
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=884097
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Jun 30th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Videa
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Atlanta, GA
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This crew lost the plot years ago....
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Had a great concept initially...
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Total "has been" company at this point. Had a good idea years ago but were unable to execute. Very weak leadership across Ops & Agency Sales. Stick a fork in it....
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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4.0
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1.0
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2.0
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2.0
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1.0
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2.0
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2.0
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884097
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Open
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0.0
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[{"countHelpful": 0, "languageId": "eng", "userJobTitle": "Sr. Director of Marketing", "__typename": "EmployerResponse", "originalLanguageId": null, "id": 2215385, "responseDateTime": "2019-07-15T12:01:35.21", "translationMethod": null, "response": "Just the facts\u2026 Although we don\u2019t disclose revenue because we\u2019re a private company, Videa is live in almost 170 (of 210) markets and we\u2019ve end-to-end processed over 20,000 orders so we have to disagree on the execution front. Could we be growing faster? Certainly, but one could say that about any innovation. It takes time to change an industry that hasn\u2019t changed in over 50 years but we\u2019re getting there as a company and industry. We fully believe our future is bright. On the leadership front please know that you\u2019ve been heard and best of luck to you in your new job (change is good).", "responseOriginal": null, "countNotHelpful": 0}]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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0.0
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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May 8th, 2021 07:11AM
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Videa
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