Growing pains mean you are growing and that's a good thing - Anonymous employee Glassdoor Employee Review

5.0
Apr 7, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people who work here are for the most part extremely smart, driven, and really care about the business. Their connection to the culture, leadership team, and our mission is clear and helps during those times when the hours are long and the work hard - which they can be in a rapidly As we evolve, the founders and executive leadership team have been humble enough to admit that they don't know everything, showing this most recently with the hire of several new exec leaders to round out the team. Work life balance and ease while at work (lunch every day, ridiculous snacks and drinks) are encouraged and at the individual team member level almost expected. Finally, openness and innovation are encouraged. We know that it takes a village and everyone needs to be thinking creatively about how we run our business to keep it moving at this pace.

Cons

We are growing and when there is immense growth, there are pains associated with becoming a 'grown up' company. Glassdoor is right in the middle of that right now. Leaders are doing their best in preparing for the change with changes to structure, processes, comp plans, etc but there is a subset of the team members who are still attached to the Glassdoor 2012 ways. Yes, the culture was great but evolution is needed to move to the next level. The legacy team member base tends to be entitled, putting in less hours, really not connecting to the new mission and goals, because they want to keep the company in its teens. When leadership makes a change that appears to be painful for team members, those people complain within the office, post on here and as a result things are changed to the 'softer, gentler' old way. We can't continue to grow where the squeaky wheel always gets the oil. Engineering resources are low - as is in most companies. We need a team of people who can fix customer bugs and continue to innovate. While our Engineers are smart and can execute, the product growth in to the Enterprise space has been slower because there just aren't enough of them to build. Salaries are lower than market. This is a known and was acceptable prior because many of those earlier team members got a bunch of equity and the perks were great. One of those perks is the perceived 'unlimited PTO' which is not really unlimited, it's Open with Manager discretion. This was misinterpreted by team members to mean all the vacation you could consume regardless of business impact. That's caused some concerns from the vantage point of keeping the business moving as quickly as possible. Lack of strong leadership led to this and now there's clean up involved to get everyone back on track.

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Glassdoor Response
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I agree with you 100% when you say, " We know that it takes a village and everyone needs to be thinking creatively about how we run our business to keep it moving at this pace." We are weathering an enormous amount of change. It's incredibly exciting. And it won't be without it's bumps. We're hiring and growing at an incredible pace. In the last few months we've opened new offices in Chicago, Dublin and London. To keep things moving smoothly, we need smart processes designed to support our momentum. To ensure our market leadership, we need employees who are fully committed, who come in everyday with big ideas and big ambitions and who are excited about what's ahead. It's going to be a wild ride. Thanks for being on this journey with us.

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