Inflection Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Inflection full-time for more than a year

Pros – Incredible co-workers, wonderful community curated by our Happiness Engineer, transparent business, flat structure, great mentors, flex time, ability to work remotely (if you're going on a trip and don't want to use PTO) or work from home (most people WFH Tuesdays/Thursdays), ability to make a high impact and own a piece of the business right out of college, fun milestone trips whenever we hit a revenue goal, frequent happy hours, awesome company sailing most weekends (can bring guests!), a company that cares about the individual not just the employee.

Cons – currently need more front end developers, which management knows and has now made a hiring focus. not the most competitive salaries for people right out of college (at least for people on the marketing/bd site), but it improves markedly post a person's 1-year review

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

Current Employee – been working at Inflection full-time for more than a year

Pros – Awesome team culture, everyone shares the same goal to help company succeed. Inflection focuses on work/life balance and the well being of employees. Lots of opportunities to work with talented individuals. We often celebrate milestone success with happy hours and offsite trips. Free catered organic lunch daily, beautiful campus and grounds, free Caltrain pass and shuttle bus. Competitive salary, health benefit, 401K, etc.

Managers care and trust employees with ongoing opportunities to learn, develop and grow. People with big egos will not survive here.

Cons – Dealing with big data may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it has enormous potentials and comes with interesting design challenges. We have a lot of talented fresh graduates who can be rather immature, but also high energy so it's not necessarily a bad thing.

Advice to Senior Management – Love our open-minded CEO and other talented leaders. I'd like to see more people embracing new technology and establishing a better (and open source) platform for our products. Because frankly, they're a bit out of date and may hinder our success going forward.

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

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

Pros – The company culture can not be beat.

Cons – Some of the upper management were ego-maniacs, but they have all since left the company by choice or by force

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

Former Employee – worked at Inflection full-time

Pros – Friendly people
Lots of freebies like lunch, snacks, drinks, shuttle from Caltrain
Great recruitment & hiring process
Great work/life balance

Cons – Full of young, inexperienced employees who dare not question leadership or bring new approaches to the table.
Older employees have too much sway in business decisions, promoting stagnant thinking and a lack of innovation.
Primary product team places too much focus on small tweaks to a poorly designed product as opposed to innovating with a new vision.
Lack of leadership & understanding from conversion team as to how to truly move the needle with conversion rates.
Lack of long term vision from leadership.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus more energy on motivating and inspiring your employees to innovate.
Encourage new ideas & innovation from all employees on all products.
Discourage the prevalent "yes man" attitude within your company.

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

Current Employee – been working at Inflection full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Matthew and Brian Monahan who were in their early 20s and late teens respectively when they founded Inflection. As a result, we believe that young people are capable of taking on huge responsibility and making a big difference in our company.
We believe that the time and effort we put in to training our employees on ecommerce, web and mobile product development, internet direct marketing, consumer brand creation, and big data aggregation and management, gives both Inflection and our employees an incredible return on investment.
The culture here is the best I've experienced in my 15 years working in Silicon Valley. We balance the values of creative and analytical decision making in a way that keeps us both innovative and profitable...a balance that is not often found.

Cons – The company is not easy to reach by public transportation, but provides a private shuttle from the Hillsdale and San Carlos Caltrain stations for employees coming from San Francisco and the South Bay. It also provides free annual passes for public transportation.
The company just sold it's Archives.com business to Ancestry.com, which was a really cool website and fun to work on. However, it is launching Identity.com and Goodhire.com in the next 3 months, and still has the leading people search website Peoplesmart.com.

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

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

Pros – Great work-life balance, open and welcoming attitude (both personal and work-related), full of top-notch veterans and eager new recruits.

Cons – Might be too split-test driven with success analyzed by short term revenue versus life-time-value and great user experience. Some process and structure needs to be developed, but expected in a young company.

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure the company's main business principles/objectives are articulated to all the departments, so that everyone can make confident decisions for the good of the company as a whole, not each department's agenda.

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

Current Employee – been working at Inflection

Pros – The people here are hands down the best reason to work here. Several my friends have started interviewing at Inflection, and it's not just because I rave about it! Although we are growing rapidly we're still technically startup-- with the upside of being profitable since day 1, over 5 years ago. The CEO his co-founder brother (as well as the rest of the senior leadership team) amongst entry-level team members who are fresh out of college. We have a ridiculously fun time together during celebratory company trips and social events, but work incredibly together as a team. Our "platform" is actually a platform, and is versatile and robust enough to support many products to come. People here are extremely friendly and respectful of one another, which makes me want to come to work every day just to interact with them. I don't think everyone can say that about their work environment!

Cons – We're transitioning from a true startup to a slightly bigger size, and we're experiencing some growing pains. But if you can handle the challenge and have a positive mindset, you'll learn and gain more than you lose in the process in terms of personal growth and career development. We also don't have a balanced number of men to women but that's improving steadily because our recruiting team ROCKS.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work and please continue to be so down to earth. The whole team appreciates it! We need more women leaders, as tough as they are to find. In general being aware of everyone's engagement and job satisfaction is difficult, but crucial. The time each of you take to check in with each other and the rest of the team is really reflected in the quality of interpersonal relationships at Inflection and will be crucial in the long run. Again, keep it up!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Inflection

Pros – They take care of their employees. Work life balance is great. The leadership team is very smart. A smaller company can mean more flexibility and opportunity if you are proactive.

Cons – Might not be paying as much as other companies in the bay area. Still in growing phase and figuring out process and structure.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Inflection

Pros – The best part of Inflection is the wonderful team of people that work here. People are intelligent friendly and co-operative with minimal egos and lots of interesting personalities. Management is accessible and transparent, sharing tremendous amounts of information so that everyone has the opportunity to understand the full operation of the business if they take the time to review the communications that are distributed. While the standard work hours are very traditional there is also a lot of flexibility in accommodating individual situations from family needs to commute stress. I would, and do, recommend it to anyone as a great place to work and I am very happy to be here.

Cons – Having snacks and free lunch available is hard on the diet. The lack of bureaucracy sometimes means that it is not entirely clear how to deal with a new situation or who to turn to with a problem, though this is usually resolved with just a bit of asking around. The air conditioning is unpredictable, so layers are required during the summer. Hard to think of a lot of cons.

Advice to Senior Management – As the firm grows treating people consistently should really be emphasized, the flexibility that immediate manager have may lead to some inequities. The main point though is to keep up the friendly team atmosphere that has thus far done quite well in avoiding any destructive competition.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Inflection full-time for more than a year

Pros – Happy hours, trips, workday hour flexibility, catered lunch, easy transit options, amazingly talented people

Cons – You'll have no shortage of opportunities to grow and shine, but you'll be held accountable for your work.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the great work!

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