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      Stacklet Reviews

      3.6

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (12 total reviews)

      65% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Culture and values

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.3

      Senior management

      Reviews by job title

      12 reviews
      2.0
      13 Apr 2022

      Amazing potential derailed by poor engineering leadership

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      There is an excellent market for the product and the company is very effective at lining up customers. The engineers are generally polite, kind, diverse, and pleasant to spend time with. Some of them are incredibly smart and generous. Cloud Custodian is interesting and fun to work with. Fully remote.

      Cons

      From the top down, the team is primarily experienced with legacy open source technologies and inexperienced with engineering developments from the last decade. This includes modern SaaS development and devops. There is also a poor understanding of customer expectations with regard to quality, security and user experience. The end result is a team struggling to deliver what would be an extremely simple product in the hands of a high performing engineering team.

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      Stacklet Response
      4y
      Thank you for this review and for highlighting the incredible talent, diversity, and positivity of our engineering team. We value your thoughts and opinions. At Stacklet, we are building a team of engineering professionals from a variety of both personal and professional backgrounds. Like many early stage start-ups, our initial hires were mostly from our professional networks. However, that is quickly shifting as we grow and seek new talent. With regard to our customers, one of our Core Values is “Customer Focus,” which focuses on adding value to our customers where it matters most. To that end, we have recently hired a brilliant Customer Success Manager to ensure that we are not only listening to and responding quickly to our customers needs, but are also growing in a way that exceeds their expectations. We feel that we’ve hired the best talent to help bring all of the many components of our product together so that they become seamlessly integrated. Our current CTO is the creator Cloud Custodian and has years of hands-on engineering experience. Additionally, he welcomes feedback from the team. If there is specific feedback for him, I encourage you to either offer it to him directly or speak with P&C or our CEO. Our (virtual) doors are always open, we know that every voice at Stacklet is an important one, and we deeply value transparency (it is also one of our Core Values).
      1.0
      25 Jun 2022

      Terribly Cultured Company

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      After reading through some of other reviews, I also agree that there was huge product potential that is being wasted with awful direction. The work-life balance is good and the company is full remote. But, these are roughly all I personally feel are the benefits of Stacklet.

      Cons

      I implore anyone who is considering joining to look at the extreme distribution of reviews here on Glassdoor and I think may tell you how this place operates. I'd like to separate my thoughts into 3 sections: Tech, Culture, and Execution. The Tech. The tech is largely built on legacy systems with little to no understanding of SaaS architecture or security. The development experience is confusing as there simply is no debugging experience for some of the backend services. In addition, there are clearly scale issues already occurring on a system with very little customers. The technical decision making is made from a very small group of people and although they provide "lip-service" that their doors are open, it's far from reality. I agree it is hard to get any movement without having the right ear. The Culture. This is by far the worst thing about Stacklet. I agree with a few of the other reviews here, there is cultural baggage and nepotism from leadership and other people who all came from the same company in the past. If you're not sure, take a look at Linkedin and see the distribution of employees and people in leadership positions. Take a look at the distribution of opinions about Stacklet. There seems to be 2 realities here, but most likely 2 separate experiences working at this company. There is a lack of ability to debate your views here at Stacklet and there are some engineering leaders with short tempers. There isn't diversity of thought here, not to mention a lack of diversity here as well. There is a lack of transparency at the company as well. The decisions are made by a select few and there is a lack of review of the behavior of leadership. Lastly, I'd like to point out that every negative review left here is met with "lip-service" of moving fast, disagree and execute, take risks, or open door policy. These are just words and I don't believe the leaders actually mean what they say. Just look at how the Head of People is gaslighting everyone who leaves a bad review. The Execution. There is a huge open source following for Cloud Custodian that is being squandered with poor leadership and poor execution. With all the technical debt that has already been built, the company moves extremely slowly for a startup and has a difficult time delivering on what customers are asking for. Do you like to understand the business reason for a feature? Good luck on that. Product management is whimsical and honestly just looks like guessing with little direction. There is active rumblings between the founders and leaders as well.

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      Stacklet Response
      3y
      Thank you for your feedback. We value your input in helping shape Stacklet’s culture and future. In response to your areas of concern: Tech As an early stage startup much of our technology is still nascent. Today, we build on native cloud services and serverless. Tomorrow, that may change. The market Stacklet is pursuing has workloads on every major cloud provider and governance of those assets requires managing complexity. Part of Stacklet’s challenge is making this software scale so that it is useful for very small customers and very large customers at the same time. Over the past year, we’ve hired people with much more experience in running production SaaS products and the product has improved immensely, but as usual there are always things that need to be improved. Culture It is a fairly common strategy for early-stage startups to seed the company by hiring people directly from the networks of the founders and first employees. Stacklet hired some of the best talent in open source technologies from within our networks. We are proud of our team and excited to continue growing and expanding outside of our direct networks. Based on feedback from everyone on the team we have taken steps to increase diversity as it relates to hiring outside of our networks and to hiring diverse team members, including the addition of our Talent Acquisition Director. To that end, 80% of our last 10 hires have come from sourcing outside of our networks and 60% of those have been diverse hires. Execution We are excited about the Cloud Custodian community and want to serve our community and our customers as best as possible. As we continue to move forward and deliver on what customers are asking for, we have added Product Management leadership to continue to clarify our priorities and direction to best serve our community. Cloud Native Compliance and FinOps is still a relatively new field (the FinOps Foundation hasn’t even celebrated their 2nd birthday yet!) so we feel that building on a solid open source foundation will lead to better results for customers.
      1.0
      20 Apr 2022

      Nepotism and lack of direction

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good sense of work life balance

      Cons

      Legacy systems, nepotism, lack of direction, leadership is not open to challenging ideas.

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      Stacklet Response
      4y
      Thank you for this review and for recognizing our culture of valuing our employees, treating them as whole humans, and encouraging balance between passionate work and life outside of work. With regards to our systems, we leverage a serverless, event-based solution to help other organizations modernize and become more successful in the public cloud. To your note about nepotism, one of our core values at Stacklet is “Empathy & No Brilliant Jerks." We want to continue building strong teams within our organization where all voices are heard and valued. If there are specific instances where you feel that any level of favoritism has occurred that has negatively impacted you or the company, please let P&C know immediately. The way we establish direction at Stacklet is consistent and transparent. We currently use a goal-setting framework called OKRs. These are evaluated, adjusted, and published on a quarterly basis in an open way across the entire company. Each quarter we run two-week agile sprints that are also evaluated by the entire company to iteratively make and measure progress toward established goals. Our CEO communicates our corporate progress to the whole team on a bi-monthly basis. One of our core values is to "Move Fast & Take Risks," so it can often appear we are changing directions. This is different from lacking direction. Please reach out if you have ideas or suggestions about how we can improve our clarity and communications about direction. Another core value across Stacklet is "Disagree & Commit." We welcome different opinions and ideas - that's how great products are created! Our leadership is here to encourage team members to challenge the status quo and bring new ideas to the table, while recognizing that not all ideas will be implemented. If there is a persistent issue with a leader on your team, again, P&Cs doors and ears are open.
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