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Scale Computing Reviews

4.3

90% would recommend to a friend

(53 total reviews)

Jeff Ready

96% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Scale Computing has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 53 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Scale Computing 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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53 reviews
2.0
17 Dec 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you're looking to get your toes wet in the start-up scene, this is an easy place to get into and is fairly low-stress out of the gate. There's a lot of fun people who work here and the environment has a strong startup feel. -fun office environment (pre-covid) with food and booze always available -very easy entry-level roles, quick advancement

Cons

Look at the review made on October 21st, 2020, then read the review posted on November 12th, 2020. The 2nd post was in direct response to the first, and shows you exactly how people are treated at this company when they show any dissent from management. You're always allowed to contribute, just "as long as it makes sense". It's comical that they posted that. But they have a history of plugging manufactured reviews on here, so that's par for the course. I once was a huge fan of the company and thought that they always did right by their employees. But when they fired a group of folks in summer of 2020, they did so on the 2nd to last day of the month, and health benefits were cut off on the 1st. Contrast that to a different startup (who is much smaller) who paid their employees for 3 months after their release, and had a company-wide initiative to assist those employees with re-employment. In this case, the grass wasn't only greener on the other side, the grass doesn't even exist at Scale. This also happens to be the most white-male dominated company I've ever seen. They don't look at diversity as a strategic advantage, they see it as a box to check for the HR department that doesn't exist. -below market compensation, no 401k match -zero onboarding / training -rapidly approaching unattainable sales quotas -awful middle management with no experience -very few transferrable skills out of this industry

2.0
24 Aug 2018

It's Ship Has Sailed....

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Stock options earlier on but they dwindled down to offering nothing over time -Opportunity to move up quickly but usually only if you were one of the handful of early on employees or you suck up to middle management

Cons

-very poor healthcare -no 401K match -widespread and acceptable drug use, including people from entry level to senior management. Don't expect a drug test because half their employees would fail. -understaffed/overworked environment that burns people out quickly -middle management is full of people with no clue how to manage people and a handful of people in positions only because they have been at the company for a long time (and have clearly proved they cannot lead) -the company has a vision but execs have little understanding what is actually going on outside of their own walls and thus middle management is given freedom to run whatever direction satisfies them personally -the CEO is extremely out of touch with employees, surprisingly at a hovering 100 employee count. Nice person but doesn't motivate the ranks at all -the company constantly changes direction so it's hard to know from year to year what will be expected next and proves their long term vision is dicey at best This company's ship has long sailed. They tag themselves as first to market but spend more of their time poking at the competition than taking a good hard look at the gaps in the product. They continue to miss that to be the best you must invest actual money into things (talent, marketing etc) Their best bet at this point is being bought out so the investors can recoup their money and at best break even.

1.0
3 Dec 2021

Look elsewhere.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Product and engineering teams were exceptional

Cons

Poor management, cliques within different departments, there are only two types of employees - the employees that work hard every day and the employees who do nothing at all and get raises and promotions. WAY below average pay for anything other than the engineering department. They discourage discussing salary with coworkers and we all know why organizations do that - being secret about salaries allows them to pay some fairly and others WAY below market value. They prey on local talent directly out of college and bribe them with a "career." Lots of gossip within the organization. Watch your back here, management will sneak up behind you and rip the rug out from under you. This place is like Survivor - make your alliances and if you choose incorrectly you won't last very long.

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