Pandora Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Pandora full-time

Pros – One of the best places I've worked for. They really care for their employes and there are a lot of opportunities to grow with the company. A fun place with lots of interesting problems to solve.

Cons – Can't really think of one.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep managing like a startup environment.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Pandora as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Pandora has incredibly smart people dedicated to an awesome mission - bringing music people love wherever they are. As a company, Pandora pays a great deal of attention to individual development and professional growth. I loved working there and would love the opportunity to do so again in the future.

Cons – They have concerts from well known bands in the break room with kegs and lots of fun smiling people, so if you like working around 4 PM on a Friday, this probably isn't the place for you.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep being awesome

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Pandora full-time for less than a year

Pros – Super friendly environment, opinions are listened to, no micromanagement

Cons – none that i can think of

Advice to Senior Management – keep up the awesome work that you all are doing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Pandora full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great leadership, amazing offices and an innovative product in high demand by advertisers!

Cons – Growing pains as the company is growing so quickly.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Pandora

Pros – Pandora has a very cool product...and so are it's employees. Working at Pandora was fun and challenging. The product is universally loved by everyone and you'll hear that from friends and family all the time. The management has created a atmosphere where you own your job, thus you don't worry about clock watching, just your quality of work. Highly collaborative. I had a great experience working there and wish them the best of luck.

Cons – Communication from senior management down to the ranks has always been poor. There really needs to be a reliable and consistent communication stream to employees. Also, their performance management needs work, as expectations are rarely set and a great concern of employees. With that said, they are working on it now.

Advice to Senior Management – Fix the communication issue and make performance management a priority in 2012.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Pandora

Pros – Great reputation in the market place.
Smart employees.
Fantastic culture (Everyone works very hard under very aggressive time lines. There are some very cool fringe benefits as well. In particular if you love what you do.)

Cons – There are some serious politics in the management ranks.
The tenured employees are not as easy to get to know as the newer employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you're doing... although I think growing fast and downsizing fast has its own problems and will require some additional forethought.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pandora

Pros – There's a strong sense of community since the vast majority of employees love music. People are very proud to work on this product, and there's an extra level of energy put into the work. There are some exciting projects to work on as the team and scope expands.

Cons – There might be some growing pains, as there are with any growing company. Some folks might work long hours, but this is absolutely not the case for most employees. The HQ location might be a turn off to some people.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep to a high hiring standard, and look out for inevitable growing pains within the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend