Fivetran Reviews

Fivetran does one thing well and that's hiring great ICs. Benefits are fairly competitive.

If you want to understand whether you should take a job at Fivetran, ask them about their GROSS employee retention over the past 1 & 2 years. What will be abundantly clear from that statistic is the people who helped the "rocket ship" grow are now catapulting themselves off of it. From 2020-2021 Fivetran more than doubled in size, and they did not do so gracefully. What was once a moral and people-driven culture has been relegated to a run of the mill capitalistic crapshoot, hopefully the options make it all worth it. Imagine leaders who say one thing to your face and another to your boss. Imagine people outside of your organization consistently treating you better than those inside your organization. Picture a team so fixated on escalation that managers don’t know how to prioritize and overreact to teeny tiny issues. Imagine you’ve all proven you can do your jobs remote for the past year and a half and being called back to an office because that’s what the founders want. Imagine a culture of distrust wherein colleagues assume their teammates are going to let them down. Many of our best, most diverse, and talented leaders have departed in the past 5 months. Individuals at every level from IC to Director who were critical to our inclusive and fun culture are moving onto new things despite the bribe of Camp Fivetran waiting for us in a few months. Career development opportunities are few and far between as only a select couple of departments actually do promote from within and outside leaders are being brought from far and wide with the ultimate result being homogenizing the population into a mass of MBA business bros who lack empathy and compassion. I know I’m just a stranger and this might sound like an opinion, so ask about the gross employee retention over the past 2 years and the problem will be confirmed with data. Unfortunately for Fivetran, it seems IPOing has taken the wheel and outside hires who only care about metrics and the bottom line drive the decision making at every level. If you want some stock options that will be worth a lot of money some day, try your hand at Fivetran. If you want a company that cares deeply about their employees at every level of their life and peers who do the same, I recommend you keep looking.