They seem like a pretty cool company to me. They are profitable and have been for years, and as a tech company that is important and impressive. They pay very well (base and bonus - stock is Pre-IPO so less than the big boys right now). They have 1000+ employees and based on LinkedIn, about 35-40% of employees have a title with "engineer" or "developer". Their office is nicer than any other office I've seen, or is equal to. They pay 100% free health/dental/vision benefits and also offer 401K match. They have free, catered lunch everyday. The work life balance is very fair from what I hear. They are a unicorn company valued at a couple billion and seem pretty well suited to go public soon. Here are some links to the office space: https://uncrate.com/-squarespace-offices https://www.officelovin.com/2016/09/30/inside-squarespaces-new-super-cool-nyc-headquarters These are all the pros I've seen and heard. Does anyone have any negatives to enlighten me with? Real negatives, not your salty and butt hurt negatives. If you vote "bad job to have", please leave a comment with details on why you think so. I'm looking for current employees, past employees or people who have friends that work/worked there.
Btw, I'm more interested in comments than the poll. Just added the poll for an extra. Looking for thoughtful negative comments in particular
Seemed like a quality place to work when I interviewed a year or so back. Seemed like scope of work is somewhat small, only thing I can speculate on without insider experience.
I have an on-site with Lyft and have a buddy that just did the on-site and it sounded fairly easy, but I may be choosing Squarespace due to the higher position they are offering. I'm a mobile engineer by the way and they are looking for new senior team leads to come onboard to build the "young application" so I was assuming the work scope would be larger and more meaningful.....am I making a mistake? Lol
Ah, good to know, I'm also mobile eng. It was closer to two years ago when I interviewed at squarespace and they didn't really have a vision for what their mobile app should be. They actually had like 5 different apps, including a note app, and it seemed like they were more just experimenting rather than hiring someone to build out an actual product. Of course that may be completely different now but I still don't see them having a strong native product. They build websites so the web product will always be the first priority and mobile means a mobile website, not native. That's where the concerns about scope came from. As a mobile eng I think Lyft is pretty hard to beat because the company is strictly mobile first given the business use case. The tooling and systems are top notch. I think the interviews seem easy because they're applied coding and seem open ended, there's no clear pass/fail as it's not algorithms but I think the bar is pretty high and the interviewers will scale it to be harder or easier based off of how you're doing. That being said, we've paused extending offers as far as I know. Comp is also going to be way higher at Lyft and it's a more recognizable brand on resume.
Used to work there, TC is lower than other companies, people are smart but everything happens slowly. Ceo is a decent person but an inexperienced leader and indecisive. The CFO is the most experienced leader and she is pretty relentless about wanting to cut costs. They are on a trajectory for an IPO but thereās no way the CEO is going to handle being answerable to investors and I expect he will be out shortly before or after the IPO. Yes they are profitable but growth is decelerating while competitors like wix and Shopify are growing like crazy.
Indecisive CEO and relentlessly cost-cutting CFO sound like a similar story.
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Looks like a standard tech company office?
I haven't seen many tech companies that have a rooftop engineering station. I may have worked at crappy companies lol. But yeah, that's why I said "or equal to" š