Retrieve Reviews

3.2

53% would recommend to a friend

(25 total reviews)

Dave Arnold

49% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Retrieve has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Retrieve 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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25 reviews
2.0
26 Jan 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people are everything...or at least they were. The vast majority of the company has either been let go or have left. Before it turned into the nightmarish shell of a company that it is now, it was great. An eager, youthful, enthusiastically vibrant atmosphere filled with hard working individuals ready to put in the work and make things happen.

Cons

The environment is the most toxic and volatile one I have ever been a part of. Retrieve has been at it for more than a year, and they still don’t know what their product as. Seriously, all it takes is a call with a sales guy or a quick skim of the website to realize that they don’t have a clue what the product is. The messaging is about as clear as the summit of Everest during a whiteout blizzard and the “direction” of the company changes every few weeks. Whatever the CEO says, goes. Period. He’s gone through three presidents, two VP’s, and twenty or so front office employees in the span of ONE YEAR. But if you play his game, nod your head and smile when he rambles on in his delusional world about how he created a product that is better than email, mobile, slack, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. combined, then you do have opportunity to grow. (i.e. the current President is a twenty-something year old kid who played the game well, props to him). Every couple of months or so, random firings are expected. Upper management handles these about as poorly as humanly possible. If you do happen to work here, against all advice and warnings not to do so, keep an eye on your email because it could/most likely will be turned off at some point without warning. And lastly, keep an eye out for the completely BULL fake positive reviews on here. Every couple of weeks the current employees are told to go on and write fake reviews. It’s pretty easy to identify the genuine ones versus the baloney, for example, “Startup with Excellent Leadership” is as dishonest and over-embellished as it gets. The lack of strong, morally sound leadership is the very reason why Retrieve will never ever live up to its full potential.

1.0
13 Jan 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice office environment with exposed brick, frontline teams are good folks

Cons

Its a very TOXIC environment with the CEO trying to "micro manage" everyone. He literally has a spreadsheet of every employee's work for the week...hour by hour, task by task. It feels like he's constantly looking over your shoulder and freaks out if someone is not at their desk. He walks into closed door discussions at ANY TIME just to see what people are saying. Even worse, the business changes direction every 3-4 months and the CEO randomly fires a bunch of people (he's fired 3 different Presidents in 15 months). Benefits are TERRIBLE...bad healthcare insurance. If you look at the pictures on Glassdoor 80% of the people are no longer there...they even fired a bunch of people the WEEK BEFORE Christmas!!!

1.0
24 Mar 2017

Fake 5 star reviews

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Sometimes people would bring in cupcakes.

Cons

More layoffs and firings than users/customers. People keep calling this a start-up even though the company has been around for 10 years with nothing to show...

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