Glassdoor reviews

3.9

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,113 total reviews)
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Owen Humphries

84% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Glassdoor has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,113 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Glassdoor employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.7 stars).

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5.0
Nov 13, 2021
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Pros

- Strong "walking the walk" ethic of really treating your employees well and giving them enrichment and autonomy. - Came to work every day energized and engaged for highly complex, rewarding work with great people! - Great opportunity to seriously level up your skills, especially on the mighty ugc team I was on. - Genuine, honest, humble (now) and seriously talented coworkers and a truly lofty mission that always kept me motivated. - A generally strong adjustment to fully-remote culture amid uncertainty and a great new generation of leaders.

Cons

- Previous Engineering leaders had rather poor soft skills and consistently made me feel looked down upon and inadequate while trying to do everything themselves (not always well). My rating would have been much lower in the past. - Cultivated a "clique" of Engineers in the old SF office that hurt morale for MV employees, affected opportunities to work on high-visibility projects and reduced chances for promotion. - Poor managing of expectations around career advancement. - Some amount of knowledge/product "siloing". - Product and Design can be disorganized and lack cohesive vision.

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Glassdoor Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for Glassdoor. Really delighted to hear that your work here engaged and energized you, and that you feel that you leveled up during your time here. I'm sorry to hear of your previous negative experience but happy to hear you speak of it in the past tense. We're continually striving to ensure that we lead with empathy and that we encourage growth and reward performance for all of our teams. In relation to open-sourcing some of our awesome internal projects - watch this space! - Shane O'Grady, VP of Software Engineering
5.0
Nov 11, 2021

Glassdoor is amazing

Anonymous employee
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Pros

they have great culture and care about employees

Cons

no cons that really jump out at you

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Glassdoor Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to share about your experience! We're thrilled to hear you feel cared for at Glassdoor, and we hope you continue to grow your career with us. The best is yet to come! - Mark Batke
3.0
Nov 7, 2021
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Pros

1. Pay is good 2. Able to work remotely 3. Job isn't too difficult

Cons

These cons are based on my personal experience at Glassdoor: 1. Glassdoor pays employees based on the state that they live in, which I don't believe is an effective strategy. For example, all of California is considered "Tier 1", and all of Illinois is considered "Tier 2", regardless of where you live within the state. I did not see myself being at Glassdoor long-term once I realized that if I were to move, I would need to take a significant pay cut. 2. When it comes to the relationship between Glassdoor and Indeed, Indeed is clearly in the driver's seat. It was annoying to constantly hear about Indeed being blamed for something Glassdoor couldn't do, or about Indeed systems, or about Indeed Sales and CS, etc. This definitely made me question the business outlook for Glassdoor. 3. There is a blatant lack of racial diversity in leadership at Glassdoor (manager level and up). There are several CS teams that are almost completely made up of white people. This needs to change, and I believe it starts with hiring more racially diverse leaders. 4. Glassdoor does not have the necessary data required to explicitly demonstrate a positive ROI to customers. This forces CS to resort to surface-level data points to attempt to show the value of Glassdoor and retain customers. Customers want to know how branding is helping them get more applies and hire more people, and as of now, Glassdoor is not able to clearly answer that question for their customers. 5. There is a lack of flexibility in how CS can go about doing their job. When I was there, there was a "client engagement" metric, which pretty much forced everyone to try to have a zoom call with each of their clients to conduct a business review. The ultimate goal is to retain and grow revenue, and there are many ways to do that aside from having a business review over zoom, and this metric limited creativity and autonomy, forcing many CS reps to waste time creating decks for clients that did not need it. 6. Morale is really low in CS and Account Management, and I believe that there will be a lot more people leaving in the near future.

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Glassdoor Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective. I appreciate the thought and detail you have put into this review. Let me address each of your points one by one. (1) Our compensation team continuously analyzes the market to ensure we offer competitive compensation. Our philosophy is to offer competitive compensation for a given role in the market in which we are hiring and this aligns with the approach taken by most tech companies (2) Our partnership with Indeed has unlocked significant growth for our business, however, at the same time, I recognize that it has also created operational complexities. A top priority for senior leadership is to continue optimizing our partnership to ensure it enables a positive customer experience and is seamless for our teams to navigate internally (3) I agree that there is a lack of diversity at the leadership level both within Customer Success and more broadly at Glassdoor. As a company, we have established specific, public goals around improving the diversity of our teams and we have made progress in increasing the diversity of Customer Success over the last two quarters. That said, I take very seriously the responsibility for continuing to advance these efforts, particularly at the leadership level (4) Customer return-on-investment is core to the Customer Success Manager role and ensuring that our teams are equipped with deep, meaningful insights is a priority across a variety of teams. As you know, we recently rolled out additional customer insights for our teams to leverage which directly link branding to hiring outcomes in the way you have suggested. We will continue to invest heavily in this area (5) As you note, the core role of the Customer Success Manager is to retain and grow our customers. Our goal in setting targets for the team is to enable conversations focused on driving value for our customers. We are constantly evaluating the efficacy of the KPIs we set for the team to ensure they are both realistic to achieve and drive a positive customer experience, (6) Employee engagement and retention is extremely important to me and all of the leaders in Customer Success. We continuously strive to create forums for feedback and to take action against that feedback. I care deeply that Glassdoor and the Customer Success org is an inclusive environment where individuals can grow their careers while also having fun. - Rennie Taylor, VP Customer Success
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