Some truly awesome people
Quite a bit of freedom over ‘how’ to do your job
Engineering org is tight and sticks together
Company starting to value remote work
Stack is complex, forces some interesting learning
Cons
Long term stability could potentially be a problem,
Hard time retaining employees in tough Seattle tech market,
Leadership lacking in overall direction and progressing culture at times.
Glympse Response
6y
Thank you for this post, as well as the thoughtful suggestions. Agreed, MLK is an important holiday. We proudly provide unlimited PTO for staff and welcome them to celebrate the day.
We certainly will miss you here at Glympse and look forward to watching your career grow with your next endeavor. Continue to stay in touch with us. Cheers!
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5.0
25 Apr 2024
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Fast environment with lost of learning and personal growth opportunities.
Peers and the engineering/customer teams are awesome and staffed with great coworkers. If you are comfortable drawing work boundaries with others and are good at being subordinate to certain management, you'll be fine.
Lots of opportunity to help existing customers and long backlog of features to build. A small team means you get plenty of responsibility.
Cons
Management pressure runs downhill whether they'd like it to or not. One powerful person on a non-engineering team is particularly cutthroat and awful to work with.
Old-fashioned views on work, e.g. valuing exhaustion and efforts that are considered above and beyond; they're far more likely to buy you free coffee and dinner than find you any additional time or resources. Speaking candidly is not valued and even punished by some leadership unless it is fully couched in praise and positivity. Hiring and firing decisions sometimes seem to be made in a vacuum and according to the whims of a few.
The company has been around more than a decade, has spent way too much money and has too many investors (see Crunchbase), and doesn't appear to have a great long-term future or return financially. If you go there, it should be for the experience and because they somehow made you the best offer.
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Glympse Response
6y
We very much agree with you that our Team 'is awesome'; we are lucky to have such a great group here at Glympse. We wish you the best in your professional journey and appreciate the time you spent with us to help us with our vision of creating innovative, personalize and efficient customer experiences harnessing the power of location sharing.