GridGain Reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(48 total reviews)

Mark Lockareff

52% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

GridGain has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 48 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GridGain 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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48 reviews
1.0
12 Sept 2017

Working here is a nightmare DO NOT WORK HERE

Anonymous employee
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Pros

smart and dedicated co-workers in-memory computing is a hot market the product mostly works how it should the best part of this job was that I realized I was being mistreated so I left and got another job that I really like, where I'm treated with respect in a collaborative environment

Cons

it felt like an atmosphere of fear and anger it felt like the office was tense and people were uncomfortable around each other, especially when senior management was around. at the end of a quarter the tension was unbearable. I got the feeling that even though it was a tiny company I should just keep my head down and do exactly what my boss told me to do I thought people looked at me like I was crazy when I suggested collaborating I also thought that senior management lied, manipulated, and kept staff in the dark to hide that their lack of expertise I felt like senior management verbally abused me and when I complained to the proper channels it felt like I was ignored it seemed to me that the CEO's job was to smile and act nice while the rest of senior management bullied their staff in my opinion, senior management is trying to market a cutting edge product using methods and language from 20 years ago it felt like I was micro-managed without direction, that I was given vague objectives and then belittled and criticized after my work was completed

1.0
26 Jul 2018

Death Spiral

Recommend
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Pros

I got work from home sometimes - when I wasn't spending my life in a hotel room

Cons

This really is a comical firm - a group of amateurs pretending to run a business. As one of my fellow leavers has said, the Dunning-Kruger Effect is heavily at play. There is a substantial number of semi-literate and borderline clueless individuals occupying senior roles. Those individuals have since hired their similarly unskilled friends from previous jobs, in a desperate cycle of racing to the intellectual bottom. Far too many of the senior people have little or no understanding of what the product is, what its use-cases are, what the competition is, and what customers are willing to pay for it. Instead they spout buzzword nonsense about functionality and capabilities that the field engineering team have proven time and again does not work properly. The CEO is totally absent, and is not involved in any way in the running of the company. In the near two years I spent there, I heard him speak twice. Morale is at an all-time low, and so staff attrition has become disastrous. In the first 7 months of 2018, over 50% of the sales engineering and services team has left, including two Director/VP level staff. More will leave soon. Many of the leavers have not been replaced, because the company can no longer afford to hire. People leave and are simply never mentioned again. Managers leave and no announcement is made to their confused, left-behind staff. If this reminds you of the Soviet Union, it should. They have been liquidated. The company set ridiculously high revenue targets for the year, and is nowhere near achieving them. It remains to be seen whether investors will keep it afloat for another 12 months after that. As also mentioned, this company engages in dubious and borderline unethical business practices. Some examples * Creating fake LinkedIn profiles to connect to marketing bots to spam potential customers * Requiring employees to add company reviews to Glassdoor by putting it in their quarterly objectives. * Purchasing dubious e-mail lists Nobody should work at this firm, unless they're utterly desperate, and even then think twice.

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