Attentive Mobile: any insight to their culture? Blind and Glassdoor reviews are bad but have $863 mil funding
Any input welcome.
Culture is great if you like looking over your shoulder at all times wondering when youâre going to get fired without any warning. Itâs also great if you like working 60+ hours a week where youâre expected to be available on Slack most evenings and weekends. Itâs great if you like working on code that is thrown together as quickly as possible to make sales with no regard for maintainability and reliability. The culture sucks. No amount of funding will change that. The reviews are bad for a reason.
Thanks for the insight. Are you in EPD?
Yes
It's not as dramatic as some other people here who are complaining cause they were fired... But it's not a place to coast. There's always something to do and shipping code/product is highly valued. My personal WLB is pretty good, though those 8-9 hours are very intense. I have had a lot of fun with the projects I've worked on.
Interesting. I know that in tech, sometimes it can be a grind. But if the grind happen 7 days a week, 365 days a year then yes, itâs not sustainable.
It's not 7 days a week grind. It's an intense 8-9 hours 5 days a week. I get plenty of vacation and flexibility around my schedule so I'm definitely not overworked.
Usually only unhappy or recently departed people post reviews about their jobs. I would take it with a grain of salt and ask more direct questions in person.
Answering your question: things move fast, very top-down hierarchical set up (both tech and processes) - example: every month your manager gives you a mandatory score from 1 to 10 I donât see much politics , people are nice
âevery month give you a mandatory score from 1 to 10â. Thatâs interesting. Whatâs the standard they use for those score? Is it like this: - Sales: meet sales target = 10; meet half = 5 - Eng: close all bugs in x days = 10 Just wondering because this seems that it can be abused, especially if the manager and you donât have an agreement on what score 10 means before the month start.
Do you have an offer? you should just talk with the hiring manager Bc you seem very worried about how fair your mgr will be. Everything youâre worried about can be true of any manager at any company IMO. Every company I ever worked for has some performance eval whether itâs 1-10 or below expectations - exceeds expectations. each dept has different career ladders. Itâs not about âclose all bugs in x daysâ How have you been assessed in the past? The perf scale wasnât at all earth shattering to me. The difference is the specificity of scale (1-10), and frequency of feedback.
Lots of bad places to work have hundreds of millions of finding
Do you have any insight to Attentive culture?
No, just saying that funding status isn't a great indicator of anything cultural