Glassdoor Reviews

Pros

Glassdoor walks the talk, period. For the first time in my life I can envision myself HAPPILY working for this company until I retire. Everyone I've met and dealt with has been a breath of fresh air. Smart, professional, creative, up on the latest trends, forward-thinking and dedicated to a positive culture for all employees. The interview experience was one of the best I've had (with minor exceptions noted below), starting out with complete salary transparency, being up-front about the benefits package, and offering quality interviews that gave great insight on my department and the company's goals. I am happy in my work, and because of the multifaceted approach to a positive, supportive culture, I feel taken care of and valued for my contributions and encouraged to achieve work/life balance. Honestly, it's astounding - I've never felt this way before about working anywhere, and I have had a LOT of jobs. I am particularly impressed with the CEO, and I don't impress easily when it comes to the C-suite. He's incredibly sharp, deeply genuine, passionate about his work and energetically and authentically driven to keep the company moving forward. The employee resource groups and Slack channels are an outstanding way to encourage and support different specialized groups of employees.

Cons

The interview process is lengthier and more complicated than it needs to be in an environment where talent is impatient and have their pick of jobs. I had to meet with five different people to get the job, and several of them are not even people I work with. I understand careful vetting, but would empower department heads to make decisions earlier in the hiring process without having to involve so many different levels of interview. While this isn't my record for interviews (I had 7 interviews at one company), it's 2nd place.

Pros

- Extremely transparent company with solid ethics - Amazing co-workers that encourage collaboration and innovation whenever possible - Fairly solid benefits (slightly less than other tech companies, but overall mostly comparable) - Fosters strong work / life balance - Remote friendly - New office for those who want to use it is amazing - Strong engineering culture with bi-annual hackathons that almost always has projects that end up in production and / or drive new product decisions

Cons

- Benefits could be slightly better (better 401k match, sabbaticals, bringing back 2 company holidays a month, more logical geo-tiers for pay) - Although becoming less of a problem, lots of resources spent on legacy tech debt - For a while innovation seemed stagnant, but with new fishbowl initiatives (among other things), we seem to be moving in the right direction.

Pros

-An overarching sense of altruism throughout various teams to help clients -Exciting time to be here given roadmapping and plans for the next 1-2 years -Indeed partnership has opened a lot of doors, despite a rocky rollout -My team has been incredibly supportive and welcoming of new ideas -Excellent leadership; very approachable, collaborative and real -I feel very taken care of via comp, benefits, DEI programs, W/L balance

Cons

-B2C Product needs to modernize to win consideration of younger audiences -Folks seem to be running thin, we could easily use hundreds more people -Indeed relationship is overall positive, but current systems and tools make it very challenging to work collaboratively which is felt by clients

Pros

Positive & supportive work culture, emphasis on work/life balance, a true meritocracy where your performance is rewarded in realtime.

Cons

No company is perfect, but I'm hard pressed to find cons working at Glassdoor.

Pros

Benefits, work-life balance, fun events, more good people than bad, professional development opportunities, and supportive culture and awesome co-workers but only if you're lucky enough to find the right people. If you're starting off in your career this is a great place to learn. Although misguided and out of touch at times, their DEI efforts are respectable and they're trying, which was great to see.

Cons

Leadership only pretends to be transparent and supportive, favoritism, lots of turnover, poor communication between departments makes your work harder than it has to be, babysitting and making sure other people do their job right, passive-aggressive/fake culture at times. Some sales leadership recently left without any opportunities lined up so that was alarming to see. Not a lot of room for growth, promotions are usually one level at a time so be prepared to wait. Unless you're a favorite- then you might get promoted within a year, maybe even 2 or 3 times.