Gradle Technologies Reviews

3.6

56% would recommend to a friend

(73 total reviews)

Hans Dockter

73% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Gradle Technologies has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 73 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Gradle Technologies 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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73 reviews
5.0
30 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- The engineering team: The engineers here are smart, they have balanced views, they're accepting and kind, they aim to do what's right for the whole team. We have great talent in this team. - Learning: I've learned a lot working at Gradle. We drive the tools we use pretty hard (we are a tools company, after all). You have the chance to learn about them more deeply than you might be able to at another company. - The product and the mission: Develocity is a great product. Working with it is excellent and that's another reason why I find DX here quite good. Making life more productive and more satisfying for developers, especially those in enterprises where Developer productivity can be so tough, is a great problem to be working on. - The engineering leadership: Etienne and Luke are great, we're lucky to have them. Growth in an engineering team is very difficult to manage well, and I think they've made some very good decisions between them, both organisational and technical. - Interaction with customers, without proxies: As an engineer at Gradle, depending on the team you work on, you will get the opportunity to interact directly with customers without proxies, to understand their needs and what they want. At many companies you don't get that, but here you do, and I think that's a great opportunity and makes for more rewarding work.

Cons

Everywhere has their own problems, and that includes Gradle. Here are some of the challenges we have that are unlikely to be solved in the immediate term as I write this: - Some aspects of the development lifecycle are still underdeveloped or suboptimal, such as the release process. Like everyone else, we have flaky tests and occasional build issues. We have a team dedicated to improving developer productivity and solving these sorts of issues. - The codebase is fairly complex, and it takes time to get used to working in it. This is standard fare at many engineering shops, especially ones that use a monorepo, as we do. - Many engineering organisations have this issue, we do too and I think I speak for all of us when I say we're not happy about it: The engineering team is not very diverse, demographically. I do think we are an inclusive and accepting team, and I hope that soon we're going to see that manifested in the makeup of the team, but right now it's not.

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Gradle Technologies Response
1y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We appreciate your feedback and kind words about our team, working environment and learning opportunities. We acknowledge the negatives, too, and are committed to driving change and diversity and improving as we scale and grow. Thus, your constructive feedback is very valuable to us.
5.0
18 Mar 2025

Great company, leadership and colleagues

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of transparency throughout the company, more than I've seen anywhere else. Collaborative atmosphere, everyone is very happy to pitch in, lend their expertise and help even if it's outside of their typical role.

Cons

Nothing comes to my mind

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Gradle Technologies Response
9mo
Thank you for your review. We appreciate your kind words about our team and atmosphere.
5.0
25 Jan 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Gradle is one of its kind, by far the smartest people I have worked with, and also amazing atmosphere. The tech is complex but very well designed, no matter where you are coming from you will learn here

Cons

Hard to grasp how the company is doing, but nothing major. Career development seem ad hoc but being improved

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Gradle Technologies Response
1y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review and calling out our fantastic team. We value your feedback and are continuously working to improve our processes as we grow and scale.
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