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This is a little frustrating. Don’t get me wrong, the site should definitely exist and serves a useful purpose. My criticism comes when I read that they have ~3
by woollysammoth 9y ago
This is a little frustrating. Don’t get me wrong, the site should definitely exist and serves a useful purpose. My criticism comes when I read that they have ~300 employees. They are ranked 1,269 globally on Alexa. Craigslist is ranked 99 globally with only 30 employees. Even more so, on Glassdoor their benefits include “Fully stocked kitchen with everything you can imagine, catered dinners, massages, game room, nap room, open and comfortable work space.” [1]
“The world is kind of in the shitter and Change.org could be the world’s greatest plunger.” Not if it continues being a bloated company focused on recouping their massive expenses.
[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Benefits/Change-org-US-Benefits-EI_IE582921.0,10_IL.11,13_IN1.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Benefits/Change-org-US-Benefits-EI...
- frankdenbow 9y agoNot every company is Craigslist or aspires to be. It can be argued that if Cragislist had more employees they could do more for their users.
- remotehack 9y agoMicrosoft has tens of thousands. Does Windows do more for its users than Ubuntu Linux?
- seattle_spring 9y agoYes?
- cm2012 9y agoYes, without a doubt.
- woollysammoth 9y agoDefinitely, it’s not a perfect comparison — it just seems to me that a company with somewhat low revenue and an altruistic mission should do everything it can to be lean.
- Vinnl 9y agoUnfortunately that's quite a hard problem. I'm not saying this applies to Change.org as I hardly know it, but cutting corners doesn't necessarily lead to spending less money. Charities in general often have this problem of having to minimise "overhead" to remain in the public's favour, resulting in overqualified people wasting a lot of their time on e.g. simple administrative tasks because that way it doesn't count as overhead.
- remotehack 9y agoYour post is great, well made and articulated, sort of the anti-plunger post.
- djtriptych 9y agoThey competing for talent who expect all of those perks as standard. It's a smart move.