Clinkle Reviews

I worked at Clinkle as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – The people that work there are some of the smartest, most talented people you will ever meet.
Free lunch, dinner, and snacks.
Great product.
Nice SF location.
Clinkle, like most startups, requires you to have a bigger role in the company than you would at a larger, public company. As a result, you will learn a lot from working there.
Again, the people are great. They have done a great job of hiring the most intelligent, hard working people you will ever meet. On top of all of that, they're friendly, too.

Cons – Most employees are overworked and (sometimes severely) underpaid.
They had two rounds of massive layoffs in a 3 month span.
There is no longer any job security at this company.
There is little to no transparency in the company. For a while, many Clinkle employees were working without having ever seen a full demo of the product.
Many employees didn't have health benefits.
Many people that were promised equity never received it.
Product launch is always "two months from now."
The company is not very diverse. There is only one female engineer, and most of the women at Clinkle have either been laid off or are working the roles of receptionist, office assistant, or personal assistant to the CEO.

Advice to Senior Management – Try being a little more honest and transparent. Smart people want to know what's happening within their company. Also, stop treating people as if they are disposable.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Clinkle full-time for less than a year

Pros – Most of the people I worked with were great, enthusiastic, and excited to work. Unfortunately most all those people have been let go due to unclear management goals and poor management in general.

There was free lunches, but while I was there the food was actually pretty bad. Think this has changed though.

Cons – Little to no communication from managers to their employees.

Managers never initiated one-on-one's with me, there was no clear path or timeline provided to me about what I'd be doing nor when I would get to transition to doing what I was hired to do.

Obviously the numerous random layoffs due to bad management and unclear company goals, which the laid off employees had to take the brunt of.

Even with new seasoned execs, they still don't have their stuff together and layoffs continue.

I'm pretty over this company and I honestly don't even know anymore about the outlook of this company. Just seems to go from bad to worse.

Advice to Senior Management – Simply put, get your stuff together. You're pretty much alienating yourselves from everyone in the tech community and leaving an insanely bad taste in everyone's mouths. People who haven't even worked with you guys only have negative things to say and they're pretty much right.

Stop making your employees suffer for your own mistakes. You've certainly made more enemies in the past 6 months than most companies do in their lifetime.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Clinkle full-time

Pros – Incredibly smart and warm people
Lunch and dinner catered
Prime location

Cons – Toxic work environment, nonexistent culture
Broken promises for equity and product release
Broken communication across company
Terrible senior management

Advice to Senior Management – Treat people better and improve communication. Much of this has been said in previous reviews but the same issues remain in place.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Clinkle full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Everyone at Clinkle is a genius of high caliber
-Really laid back work environment, happy hour Fridays.
-But we're also really serious about our work, and take the technology to the next level
-Best design team in the valley
-Best of the best talent out of Stanford (several engineers were in top 2% of class)
-Extremely beautiful and user-focused product, not just a utility app
-Trying to solve a really huge problem, fundamental to every human
-Not just looking to get acquired like most startups, trying to go big
-Very well-funded, meaning we can hire amazing people
-The CEO fully understands the mistakes he's made, and is making a huge effort recently to improve on these problems and hire really experienced executives to help him get better.

Cons – -CEO is young an inexperienced, but acts like he's already started two or three billion-$ companies
-Design Team can be overbearing and overconfident in their requirements to engineering
-Product hasn't launched yet (though this is mostly due to our external vendors, not internal)
-Slightly below market compensation (but they'll definitely give you a raise if you earn it)

Advice to Senior Management – Continue improving on the communication channels, continue hiring great top executives and bringing more experience to the management team.

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

I worked at Clinkle full-time for less than a year

Pros – - Awesome, fun, talented individuals, all across company
- Delicious, free, catered lunches and dinners (dinners at 6:30pm)
- Company happy hours on Fridays
- Young, energetic, silly environment (at ground level)

Cons – - Dissatisfaction across the company at leadership
- Slow disillusionment at actual product's promise
- Very poor communication across company
- Top talent leaving for other opportunities
- Questionable business practices
- Broken promises (equity, etc.)
- Politics

Advice to Senior Management – Have a bit more kindness, understanding, and compassion. Your company is only as good as your employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Clinkle full-time for less than a year

Pros – Nice office
Happy hours on Friday and catered lunches
Really talented young people who are inspiring and fun

Cons – Poor senior leadership
Very low compensation to non-engineering roles
2 rounds of layoffs in 3 months? Not great for culture, job security, or company values.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to value your employees. Don't treat people like a number. Get a better handle on communicating between teams so that things can move forward with the organization.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Clinkle for less than a year

Pros – Great product
Great caterers
The engineering team is brilliant

Cons – The culture has completed had a 180 in a span of 6 months, all the little traditions were axed by senior management.
Constantly worried about job security
I used to be proud to work at Clinkle, but over the past 3 months due to hiring of senior management and cuts throughout the company, the spirit that drew many individuals to the company has been completely lost.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep fluid communications with the staff. Remember what Clinkle is trying to do and who your target consumer is. It will be hard for a corporation to relate to College students when you've let that part of your staff go.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Clinkle full-time for less than a year

Pros – - Free Lunch and Dinner
- The people who remain are very talented and a joy to work with

Cons – - Entire teams getting let go at a moments notice
- Lacking in transparency
- Feeling of little to no job security
- Delays delays delays, when it comes to launch
- Extreme egos of CEO and Design Director
- Questionable business practices
- below market comp

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Clinkle full-time for less than a year

Pros – Catered food, standard startup fare

Cons – Immature management; power vacuum; lack of leadership/vision; questionable business practices.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire some seasoned professionals who know how to run a company and step aside.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company