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
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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
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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.
1.0
16 Mar 2023

NOT a Good Place for Modern Marketers

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Pros

Team members are very capable and strong.

Cons

Gradle is a great place to thrive if you are an engineer. Unfortunately, if you're on the marketing side, the toxic marketing leadership that gatekeeps ideas proved to be suffocating. A culture of micromanagement and bottlenecking prevents the marketing team from implementing innovative strategies or, at the very least, the best modern content marketing practices. The company is stuck in outdated marketing practices and refuses to adapt. The worst part is that team members are not empowered to bring ideas to the table for fear of retribution, and there is little to no direct access to higher-ups. Unless there is a significant shift in the company culture, I cannot recommend Gradle as a good workplace for marketing professionals. Finally, they discuss maintaining and expecting "high standards" in content development. That, of course, is highly subjective. Your words may not be edited correctly, with a bias toward excessive wordiness under the guise of "quality."

2.0
20 Mar 2024

No plan from leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent culture on the open source side of the house

Cons

Core leadership has difficultly building a scaled strategy making it a very difficult place to execute on plans, the simplest operational things are painful.

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Gradle Technologies Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We are happy to hear that you enjoyed our culture. As a fast-paced and growing startup, we look forward to addressing the challenges we face and appreciate constructive feedback.
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