Used To Be A Great Company, Now Everyone is Heading for the Exits - Anonymous employee CircleCI Employee Review

1.0
24 Aug 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Remote-first company (before remote work became the norm) Great number of really sharp and talented people in the engineering organization Decent product and platform Some good managers

Cons

Pay is WAY below market, and the constant boasts about how great the equity and stock options are is just nonsense. The stock is basically worthless at this point because of all the dilution due to the two recent rounds of funding. Management talks about wanting to be a great place to work, but follow-through is non-existent. They seem to prefer burnout than work-life balance. The constant focus on hitting revenue targets takes away from potential innovation and platform improvements. There is no coherent product vision laid out for the company. No one seems to know or understand where Jim is trying to take the company. This used to be a great place to work, but now, most employees who have been at CircleCI for 1+ year have either already left, or are looking to leave because of the

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CircleCI Response
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Hello, and thank you for taking the time to leave feedback. We appreciate all opportunities to improve and learn more about what we can do to make CircleCI an amazing play to work! Your concern around company and product direction is definitely important and something we've been working hard on this year to make sure that we all feel like we are transparently moving toward improvement and being the best product we can be! If you're comfortable doing so, I recommend reaching out to a People Partner to deliver additional feedback on how we can improve communication across the org. Thank you again! Chris St. Pierre Senior Manager, Recruiting Operations

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