Indeed reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(4,529 total reviews)
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Hisayuki Deko Idekoba

52% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Indeed has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,529 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Indeed employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jan 15, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and work life balance

Cons

For an HR oriented company, Indeed allows bullying and discrimination. They also use the PIP layoff strategy. This means they instruct managers to put a certain % of the employees on a personal improvement plan (PIP) in the hopes that many of the employees put on a PIP will quit, reducing the number of people they will have to layoff with decent severance packages. Shameless management strategy by a company that ought to do better. Don’t look at Indeed as a place you can build a career on. My advice is to use them as a 12-24 month stepping stone on your way to a better company then Indeed.

1.0
Jun 28, 2024

Unfortunate decline

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

In office benefits were nice while they lasted.

Cons

After a shift away from the core users who matter in a job search industry (hint: not the employers), years of over hiring, and at least two rounds of subsequent layoffs, it is a shame to see how this company is just squeezing ever dollar and click out of its users. Lots of great people, doing meaningless redundant work, for worse leaders.

3.0
May 20, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Work/life balance is fantastic. I've never had a PTO request denied. * Coworkers are genuinely nice people. * PMs are very good. They're technical and can write basic queries and understand the basics of experimentation and machine learning. They are also incredibly knowledgable about the product they own.

Cons

* "Not built here syndrome" means that you will often use rickety internal tools to perform standard tasks instead of external tools * The performance evaluation process changes practically every quarter in the middle of the quarter without notice, often to weaponize it against employees * Reorgs just about every six months, requiring teams to totally change their priorities * Career development opportunities are overstated. You will get - at most - minimal experience with what you want to learn unless you totally transition to a new job title. * No room for high risk/high reward projects. * Teams are very territorial. It's not unusual to work on a major initiative for six months, then have another team claim ownership over it and not get to finish the project to completion. * Indeed's culture treats Product Scientists as less important than Data Scientists. Data Scientists often do Product Science-related tasks, whereas the reverse is rarely true. Product Scientists are generally assumed to be poor programmers and are not given the opportunity to write production code even when asked.

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