What is the hiring process like at SharkNinja?

- An awesome engine that actually solves problems that real consumers are talking about. Seems simple but so many fail to do it. - Some of the smartest and most passionate people I’ve ever met work here. - The market/business results speak for themselves. - If you come in and are willing to roll up your sleeves there is opportunity for amazing growth if you raise your hand for more

- Incredibly passionate CEO has lost his ability to temper his frustration and anger with recognition of “what’s working”. In the past 12 months this has become a place where no one is safe from being yelled at publicly. Ego has always been a piece of the puzzle that folk have dealt with for years because the anger and humiliation was generally rooted in an actual solvable problem that people weren’t going after fast enough or at all. Now it’s the norm to be berated no matter how well your category is performing. We are using “rarely satisfied” as a crutch for “nothing is ever good enough and you need to do more with less.” - Pay for employees that have been with the company for a long time is no longer competitive with the market. For the amount that is asked of employees, this used to be a huge perk - now it is run of the mill from a comp perspective and not worth the relentless demands that have only gotten worse with growth. This year’s merit was not a salary increase, but RSUs that are distributed quarterly mapped to a market average increase. Surface level seems cool to give everyone a piece of the pie but it is complex and not coming to fruition from a stock price standpoint. Clearly done as a way to save on OpEx with the global tariff situation but fell on deaf ears. - Some real misses on executive hiring in the past 18 months. The CEO and the People team do not know how to properly assess culture fit in the interview process. Something is broken here and it needs to change. - Micromanagement at every level masked by SharkNinja mottos and “the way we do things and we’re not going to apologize”. You are setting no one up for success by hiring VERY SMART FOLKS and not letting them craft their style within the pillars of what makes SharkNinja such a powerhouse. It has to be a combination of what works and what’s new.

Super cool products & employee discounts

From day one, there were numerous red flags at SharkNinja. Terrible hiring process. Absolutely zero onboarding beyond the typical HR/benefits info. Saw 3 massive department reorgs in my 1yr of tenure. Lack of direction & structural planning from leadership makes me think regular reorgs or inevitable. ZERO work life balance. Prepare to obsess over SN and make it the center of your life. SN has the most atrocious culture I have ever experienced. No feeling of belonging and coworkers just feel like drones doing a job. The culture operates on fear of failing or getting publicly berated in meetings. Get ready to work early & late and even be bothered on PTO. Awful leadership & micromanagement from all levels and above. You will be a glorified PowerPoint builder of typically 50+ slides and be on endless meetings throughout each and every day of the week. Every single day is a fire drill with constantly changing priorities and extremely tight & unrealistic timelines. Despite seeing growth as a company, the focus remains solely on the bad so prepare to never be recognized or rewarded for any sort of success. Truly the worst work experience in my career that caused extreme anxiety & depression during my tenure. Highly recommend looking elsewhere for a career before settling into this nightmare. I typically take GlassDoor reviews with a grain of salt but the consistent theme of reviews for this company are spot on. I promise. Run and never look back.

The whole recruitment experience has been awful

Misleading process, forced multiple times by the recruiter to move the interview forward, could not say no

Pay was fantastic and interview process was simple.

Organisation in this company is really poor.

- An awesome engine that actually solves problems that real consumers are talking about. Seems simple but so many fail to do it. - Some of the smartest and most passionate people I’ve ever met work here. - The market/business results speak for themselves. - If you come in and are willing to roll up your sleeves there is opportunity for amazing growth if you raise your hand for more

- Incredibly passionate CEO has lost his ability to temper his frustration and anger with recognition of “what’s working”. In the past 12 months this has become a place where no one is safe from being yelled at publicly. Ego has always been a piece of the puzzle that folk have dealt with for years because the anger and humiliation was generally rooted in an actual solvable problem that people weren’t going after fast enough or at all. Now it’s the norm to be berated no matter how well your category is performing. We are using “rarely satisfied” as a crutch for “nothing is ever good enough and you need to do more with less.” - Pay for employees that have been with the company for a long time is no longer competitive with the market. For the amount that is asked of employees, this used to be a huge perk - now it is run of the mill from a comp perspective and not worth the relentless demands that have only gotten worse with growth. This year’s merit was not a salary increase, but RSUs that are distributed quarterly mapped to a market average increase. Surface level seems cool to give everyone a piece of the pie but it is complex and not coming to fruition from a stock price standpoint. Clearly done as a way to save on OpEx with the global tariff situation but fell on deaf ears. - Some real misses on executive hiring in the past 18 months. The CEO and the People team do not know how to properly assess culture fit in the interview process. Something is broken here and it needs to change. - Micromanagement at every level masked by SharkNinja mottos and “the way we do things and we’re not going to apologize”. You are setting no one up for success by hiring VERY SMART FOLKS and not letting them craft their style within the pillars of what makes SharkNinja such a powerhouse. It has to be a combination of what works and what’s new.

- An awesome engine that actually solves problems that real consumers are talking about. Seems simple but so many fail to do it. - Some of the smartest and most passionate people I’ve ever met work here. - The market/business results speak for themselves. - If you come in and are willing to roll up your sleeves there is opportunity for amazing growth if you raise your hand for more

- Incredibly passionate CEO has lost his ability to temper his frustration and anger with recognition of “what’s working”. In the past 12 months this has become a place where no one is safe from being yelled at publicly. Ego has always been a piece of the puzzle that folk have dealt with for years because the anger and humiliation was generally rooted in an actual solvable problem that people weren’t going after fast enough or at all. Now it’s the norm to be berated no matter how well your category is performing. We are using “rarely satisfied” as a crutch for “nothing is ever good enough and you need to do more with less.” - Pay for employees that have been with the company for a long time is no longer competitive with the market. For the amount that is asked of employees, this used to be a huge perk - now it is run of the mill from a comp perspective and not worth the relentless demands that have only gotten worse with growth. This year’s merit was not a salary increase, but RSUs that are distributed quarterly mapped to a market average increase. Surface level seems cool to give everyone a piece of the pie but it is complex and not coming to fruition from a stock price standpoint. Clearly done as a way to save on OpEx with the global tariff situation but fell on deaf ears. - Some real misses on executive hiring in the past 18 months. The CEO and the People team do not know how to properly assess culture fit in the interview process. Something is broken here and it needs to change. - Micromanagement at every level masked by SharkNinja mottos and “the way we do things and we’re not going to apologize”. You are setting no one up for success by hiring VERY SMART FOLKS and not letting them craft their style within the pillars of what makes SharkNinja such a powerhouse. It has to be a combination of what works and what’s new.

Interesting products Smart people to work with They are constantly growing and expanding into new categories

No work/life balance and a tough environment for working parents: meetings all day from 8am to 6pm, plus expected to work nights and weekends to catch up. Cutthroat culture

Its pretty easy to get free products.

If you're thinking of applying for a creative position here...just don't. There have been no less than 6 people at the head of the creative team In the last 4 years, from CMOs to Chief Creative officers. All pushed out within 6 months to a year. The CEO knows nothing about what creative really needs and is, but makes every single decision about almost every visual that goes out the door. (Think weekly executive meetings for him to comment on packaging designs). They want people back in office but have made no effort to create space for those people. There are like 12 desks for about 50 people at headquarters. They continue to fire the worker bees and hire more people in director and VP levels. There are basically 2 entry level or mid level designers total and a bunch of contractors. Despite some of those contractors working for over a year, they won't convert them to FT even though that's pretty clear the work is there to quantify the need. And there are no processes in place, therefore there is no onboarding and everyone is running around just trying to get stuff out the door. It causes a massive amount of extra tedious duplicate work. They've been drastically under headcount for years and instead of building up the team properly, they just re-org or hire a new head of creative. Zero promotions have been back filled in years on the creative team, but they will shout to the rooftops that we had a lot of promotions to make it look great...but there is no real career growth. You never get to take anything off your plate when you get a promotion...just to take on the new work(that you were probably already doing anyway)...and still do the old job. The creative team has "re-orged" about every six months since 2021...and it never helps anything because what they really need is headcount in junior and entry level roles. Despite several people trying for years to get some concrete brand guidelines and processes locked down in place, leadership never supports the resources to roll any of it out or document it. And there are no style guides or brand guidelines to be found...anywhere. Exec reviews can cause months of work to be thrown out with a single opinion and then give you 5 working business hours to come up with something entirely new. Honestly I think they believe the role of "creative director" is the equivalent to mid-level graphic designer. Bc they have you doing all the work and still doing production on projects to release files to factories.... despite having a full production team as well. Who by the way, largely are only allowed help with Print work...none of the massive volume of digital. When I started here I believed in the vision of the company. Being there while it went public and global was an awesome experience. But the last 1.5 years it has felt like a dumpster fire. And all complaints are spun into corporate jargon "we're problem solvers" "we're outrageously extraordinary" to make us feel like leadership is listening. They aren't. Or they tell you "It's a tough place to work and might just not be for you if you can't hack it." They care about continuously reporting double digit growth, even though it's entirely at the employees expense.