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Has anyone ever gotten an offer to interview here? Or does anyone have insight on what their legal dep't is like? (NY)
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I know a TON of people just got laid off. Be careful.
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Yikes... good to knowSmokeytheBear wrote:I know a TON of people just got laid off. Be careful.
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BuzzFeed is in a death spiral. Its financial outlook darkened considerably — and probably irrevocably — in 2015-16. I'd steer clear.
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also curious
i don't care so much about long term since i'm not expecting to be hired after graduation, but just wanted to know more about the interview process and summers there
i don't care so much about long term since i'm not expecting to be hired after graduation, but just wanted to know more about the interview process and summers there
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Yeah that's exactly what I was wondering ^Anonymous User wrote:also curious
i don't care so much about long term since i'm not expecting to be hired after graduation, but just wanted to know more about the interview process and summers there
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even w/ all the traffic they are getting by posting any rumor or gossip about any well-known person no matter how substantiated just so they can be "first"...Lesion of Doom wrote:BuzzFeed is in a death spiral. Its financial outlook darkened considerably — and probably irrevocably — in 2015-16. I'd steer clear.
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This is a strange first post. I don't think Buzzfeed even does this.spha12 wrote:even w/ all the traffic they are getting by posting any rumor or gossip about any well-known person no matter how substantiated just so they can be "first"...Lesion of Doom wrote:BuzzFeed is in a death spiral. Its financial outlook darkened considerably — and probably irrevocably — in 2015-16. I'd steer clear.
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The poster is probably defending the honor of our golden shower presidentblueapple wrote:This is a strange first post. I don't think Buzzfeed even does this.spha12 wrote:even w/ all the traffic they are getting by posting any rumor or gossip about any well-known person no matter how substantiated just so they can be "first"...Lesion of Doom wrote:BuzzFeed is in a death spiral. Its financial outlook darkened considerably — and probably irrevocably — in 2015-16. I'd steer clear.
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Did the first round interview.. if anyone gets updates let us know!
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blueapple wrote:This is a strange and only first post. I don't think Buzzfeed even does this.spha12 wrote:even w/ all the traffic they are getting by posting any rumor or gossip about any well-known person no matter how substantiated just so they can be "first"...Lesion of Doom wrote:BuzzFeed is in a death spiral. Its financial outlook darkened considerably — and probably irrevocably — in 2015-16. I'd steer clear.
ftfy.
also, i'd imagine buzzfeed is less popular because there's only so many "you know you're a 90s kid if you ...." articles they can churn out.
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Alright the jokes are funny and all but Buzzfeed News has some of the best reporters on the planet and has sent many others on to careers at more traditional news outlets. At least in theory the fun stuff is supposed to pay for the smart stuff.
Buzzfeed's financial situation isn't great, but it's not any worse than most digital media outlets right now. Their revenue grew but was short of forecasts. They probably just overhired with all the seed funding they got.
Can't add much about the interview process. As someone with a little knowledge of the media landscape, I'd say Buzzfeed is probably in better shape than most new media places to survive (it's not Gawker or Splinter or any of the Kinja sites, for example) but it's not, like, the Times or the Post.
Buzzfeed's financial situation isn't great, but it's not any worse than most digital media outlets right now. Their revenue grew but was short of forecasts. They probably just overhired with all the seed funding they got.
Can't add much about the interview process. As someone with a little knowledge of the media landscape, I'd say Buzzfeed is probably in better shape than most new media places to survive (it's not Gawker or Splinter or any of the Kinja sites, for example) but it's not, like, the Times or the Post.
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I did the first round (video recording of 3 Qs - about 5 min total) last week and was contacted this Monday about a second round - phone call with counsel. Seems they're doing second rounds this week and planning on decisions by the end of the month
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Damn I didn't hear anything guess that's bad news. Good luck!!Anonymous User wrote:I did the first round (video recording of 3 Qs - about 5 min total) last week and was contacted this Monday about a second round - phone call with counsel. Seems they're doing second rounds this week and planning on decisions by the end of the month
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FWIW if people are worried about the financial outlook side of Buzzfeed, it's actually reasonably healthy. The layoffs were mostly about advertising and sales staff who weren't needed when they switched to automatic advertising (there's an actual word for it, but it's ads that automatically populate, rather than being sold to be on a specific story). From that change, revenues went up and costs went down through laying off ad staff.
Source: I've got a college friend who works there in a different department.
Source: I've got a college friend who works there in a different department.
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i'm actually not. i'm defending the honor of tons of people that this website will throw under the bus because they want to break a story first without doing the proper checks. all they care about is the clicks. buzzfeed is dumbing down discourse and the ethics of journalism. 1/4th of the site is probably native advertising. they are sh*t about acknowledging mistakes in their reporting as well. i couldn't care less about our orange president and those golden shower stories are probably true.Nebby wrote:The poster is probably defending the honor of our golden shower presidentblueapple wrote:This is a strange first post. I don't think Buzzfeed even does this.spha12 wrote:even w/ all the traffic they are getting by posting any rumor or gossip about any well-known person no matter how substantiated just so they can be "first"...Lesion of Doom wrote:BuzzFeed is in a death spiral. Its financial outlook darkened considerably — and probably irrevocably — in 2015-16. I'd steer clear.
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Buzzfeed has been steadily losing viewers/web traffic in recent years. More people are switching over to "traditional" outlets like WaPo and NYT from "viral" news outlets like Buzzfeed. #TheTrumpEffect
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