<story><title>Facebook-Linked Marketer Acxiom Plunges After Policy Shift</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-29/facebook-linked-marketer-plunges-as-policy-shift-may-sap-profit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glibgil</author><text>Any thoughts on why OP is getting downvotes? It’s insightful and shares a perspective that only a local would have.&lt;p&gt;It &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; possible for a company to have a nice work culture even while doing exploitive work. Doing good by the local community seems even easier to believe</text></item><item><author>paulie_a</author><text>They are just yet another data mining&amp;#x2F;privacy invading marketing company&lt;p&gt;That type of company should be shunned, not touted as big tech</text></item><item><author>zengid</author><text>As an Arkansas resident, I can say that Acxiom is a one of the big tech companies for the state. Their company culture seems pretty great; they also do a lot for the community too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teirce</author><text>Like most companies, team culture depends on what division you&amp;#x27;re working in. I hear some teams there can be great. Overall culture of the company is a different matter.&lt;p&gt;The downvotes are likely because, much as the other reply to the OP outlines, they&amp;#x27;re not really right. While Acxiom _has_ been a staple in the AR tech community for decades, they have also garnered a pretty horrible reputation over the last ~10 years or so. The company is a slow-moving monolith with frequent layoffs, stagnant (low) pay, and no real direction. People are leaving in droves.&lt;p&gt;They actually recently sold off (or announced a plan to) the portion of the business that exists in AR[1]. Instead they will focus on some startup-ish company they acquired in the SFBA, which seems to be their only profitable venture at the moment (or the only one the CA-based CEO is interested in).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;katv.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;axciom-to-spin-off-or-sell-its-traditional-marketing-division-realign-into-2-core-units&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;katv.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;axciom-to-spin-off-or-sell-its-tr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook-Linked Marketer Acxiom Plunges After Policy Shift</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-29/facebook-linked-marketer-plunges-as-policy-shift-may-sap-profit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glibgil</author><text>Any thoughts on why OP is getting downvotes? It’s insightful and shares a perspective that only a local would have.&lt;p&gt;It &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; possible for a company to have a nice work culture even while doing exploitive work. Doing good by the local community seems even easier to believe</text></item><item><author>paulie_a</author><text>They are just yet another data mining&amp;#x2F;privacy invading marketing company&lt;p&gt;That type of company should be shunned, not touted as big tech</text></item><item><author>zengid</author><text>As an Arkansas resident, I can say that Acxiom is a one of the big tech companies for the state. Their company culture seems pretty great; they also do a lot for the community too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_mitsuhiko</author><text>I’m sure a lot of companies that do horrible things have great work culture. That should not be a reason for such companies to exist.</text></comment>