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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4.0
Sep 10, 2020
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Pros

Great place to learn and grow and build your skillset. You are encouraged to learn new technologies and seek projects that will help you build your resume and career. Amazing work life balance even better since Covid. There is never any expectation to respond or work after hours. Very little wasted meetings/ email culture. Focus is on results and impact and little to no politics. Leadership is one of the most open/transparent and diverse (especially with regards to women) I have seen in the tech industry. Will pay good compensation in line with all the other big tech companies (but below FANG) if you negotiated prior to joining.

Cons

It is unclear how Indeed and Glassdoor won't be combined into one entity in the future given the recent acquisitions. That's not necessarily a bad thing long term for some as I feel the combined company would be a stronger brand name and resume booster but for others it may be an issue of job security. Not a lot of truly innovative projects. Salaries that you see on Glassdoor should not be this low for tech workers yet for some reason we can't seem to figure this out. Levels.fyi and/or Blind app can and should be acquired but we won't.

3.0
Jun 5, 2020

just another dysfunctional tech company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Everything in this review, except comments about the recent layoffs and the long term incentive plan, should be considered independently of the effects of coronavirus on the business. My Glassdoor colleagues are kind, and don’t hesitate to help each other when put in a position to do so. The compensation is probably slightly above what would be expected at a company of similar size and industry. The work life balance is excellent, and always has been. The sum total of the work we do is ultimately positive, insofar as we help people find jobs. It’s way better than working at some pathological social media outfit, or selling cheap trash no one needs.

Cons

The first major con should be roundly apparent from reading positive reviews. “No Cons!!” Believe me, there are Cons. We have hemorrhaged talent in the last two years (I will float some ideas why a bit why lower down), and responded with questionable hiring decisions. While there are few, if any, hard-charging bullies and alpha-types at Glassdoor, there are many obsequious and uninquisitive employees. The long term incentive plan (“LTIP”) is probably broken. Coronavirus has exposed how the incentive scheme as structurally uncredible. Personal performance is uncoupled from our business performance. That's how it's supposed to work, perhaps. But even aside from coronavirus, the LTIP is confusing and probably broken, with lower grants occurring after higher performance ratings, ostensibly due to some sort of adjusted coefficient nested into the grant calculus. My manager was not able to explain the LTIP to me during my performance review. I felt bad for her. I was in a meeting a few weeks ago, part of which my husband overheard. He later told me, “I think I know what mansplaining is now…” I laughed. It’s true. Meetings often do sound like a fact auction, with enthusiastic participation by men talking over each other. Speaking of meetings, there are too many of them. Rare is the meeting with any kind of agenda or plan. It happened once a while ago; I remember that meeting. Meetings are constantly called, often ad hoc, and sometimes after work has been completed, because those involved have to figure out what was done and why. Often we will reprise a meeting the next day because the previous meeting solved nothing. It’s a negative feedback loop. It’s not clear what Product is doing or is supposed to be doing; they come across as some kind of wannabe C-suite. The decisions about what Glassdoor's products look like and feel like seem to grow out of wishful thinking, or caricatures of job seekers that don't generalize. My manager told me in my last performance review that the reason I was not promoted was “politics.” When I asked her what I could have done to earn a promotion (or just a high rating), she mumbled something about visibility. That was disappointing.

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Glassdoor Response
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We want to extend our deepest appreciation for taking the time to share your feedback. It's encouraging to read that your experiences with fellow Glassdoorians was positive and memorable. We feel fortunate that our people conduct themselves as a phenomenal representation of our company values, and we're proud to watch what they accomplish together for job seekers around the world. No doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic has made a profound impact on businesses and on Glassdoor. Saying goodbye to so many colleagues and friends was an enormously difficult decision. Recently, we rolled out several new initiatives surrounding our pursuit for radical transparency in the workplace. Among them is a pledge for greater Pay Transparency for Glassdoor employees. We’ve made the choice to publicly release our compensation philosophy, and later we will be sharing our pay bands for roles across Glassdoor. As these efforts march forward, we will also be keeping these and our other programs and policies in mind as we look to ensure an eqitable workplace for all. Your feedback regarding how we can strive to better allocate our time during the work day (you cited initiatives such as No Meeting Wednesdays) are the first steps of an ongoing journey, especially as we've responded to communicating with one another remotely. To gather additional feedback about these changing needs, we've sent out Pulse surveys specific to working from home, and also given additional flexibility to our employees who are juggling their work responsibilities with parenting. Thank you for your feedback, and we hope to build on the areas of improvement you shared.
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