BetterHelp Reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(182 total reviews)
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Fernando Madeira

76% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

BetterHelp has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 182 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BetterHelp employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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182 reviews
1.0
9 Mar 2021
Recommend
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Pros

*Good people: When I was there, there were a lot of quality people on many teams. They were friendly, hard working, and supportive

Cons

* Constant internal evaluations of work: Monthly or quarterly internal evaluations of ones work can be very beneficial. However, we were evaluated weekly across multiple points such as accuracy, time per ticket, customer satisfaction rating, content of reply, ect. So much evaluation creates constant pressure on a team and results in increased stress *Individual contributor tickets completed per day goal far exceeded industry standards and promoted working off the clock *More senior to the team coworkers were let go under vague circumstances leaving the team stressed about their own security *Leadership was unconcerned about the stress the team was under *Leadership had no clear career growth for support team,

2.0
10 Jul 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Some great colleagues Perks were great, esp. the lunches Compensation was competitive

Cons

Toxic office culture, coming straight down from the CEO. CEO is just plain rude to people at times, and is a bit of a narcissist to be honest. They have a lot of technical debt, and there is no will to refactor. This means new features are hard to build quickly and reliably. Tech stack is outdated.

3.0
15 Feb 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Pay was decent, when everything went work from home the company honored the agreement to feed its employees with generous uber eats accounts. Alon gracefully handles very hard, very pointed questions and answers to the best that can be expected.

Cons

The management has very little understanding of the current state of the art for security, application design, and technology innovation. Instead focusing on chasing feature after feature, they choose not to invest in paying down technical debt or improving the long term maintainability of systems or implementing basic security features such as MFA. They also take a very lax approach to regulatory compliance and the advice of staff clinicians for what is clinically best; while correct to the letter of the law leaves employees with a strong sense of do-the-right-thing feeling left out in the cold. Overall when I left there was also a feeling that Teladoc (parent company) was starting to exert its influence directly rather than keeping an arm's length from something that was working. Teladoc has less than zero idea how to operate in a startup environment and was asking for things that made no sense at a technical level and were harmful at an organizational culture level.

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