Alpaca reviews

3.6

70% would recommend to a friend

(51 total reviews)

68% positive business outlook

Alpaca has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 51 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Alpaca employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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51 reviews
1.0
Dec 26, 2023
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

- Remote-only - Flexible time off - Good people around

Cons

- No job security. Entire product team was laid off for no reason. - No good financial outlook. Company had three series of layoffs in 18 months. - No competitve advantage. Competitors in the market keep taking clients away from Alpaca. - Founders. Founders are still running this as an 8-person startup.

2.0
Dec 18, 2023

Many internal issues - be wary

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote company and allows you to work anywhere. If you can get on the inside of a couple of execs at the company, you will be able to run with many different ideas. Some departments have good life balance,

Cons

Constant shift in direction on strategy. Leaders chase shiny objects without much thought if it makes sense from a market perspective. There are some execs that people despise greatly and clear they don't understand what's going on. There have been many layoffs. Some that were announced, others that are silent where they get rid of almost entire departments. There is very little loyalty here and if they find a cheaper replacement, you are out. Don't get fooled that they care about you or your career. Product is weak and has not been iterated on. Several parts of the org are on just keep the lights on mode. While some depts have good life balance, others are beyond stretched thing and there has been a hiring freeze for forever.

1.0
Nov 17, 2021

Great idea, smart people, extremely disorganized - even for a startup

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- The idea in general has a LOT of growth potential - There are some really smart people in key positions - Alpaca is growing fast - You can pretty much work on whatever you want to move the business forward

Cons

- There is no sense of career development, growth opportunities, etc. - Compensation is pretty middle of the road. - No culture whatsoever. One of the values used to literally be "Crazy Urgency", if that gives you any sense of how people act and communicate with each other - On that same note, nobody really has any accountability - There is no effort being put in to create any sort of culture. I understand that this is difficult being completely remote, but there are tons and tons of completely remote companies that do an amazing job. Learn from them. - Doesn't seem like there is a focus on DEI whatsoever - There's a lot of negativity, gossiping, putting other people down, etc. that nobody really tries to hide. - Poor leadership

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