Avalara Reviews

Pros

Overall great culture! For a company with offices around the globe, Avalara puts a lot of effort into helping our teams work together to stay connected. Extremely smart and friendly people work here - we care about each other every bit as much as we care about our customers and it shows! We are encouraged to have fun, think outside the box to find innovative ways to contribute to Avalara's success. Avalara's software positions us as an industry leader in sales tax compliance - it's hard not to be proud of where we are today and the journey it took to get us here.

Recent improvements in benefits is a huge plus (401K match), moving to our fantastic new office in Pioneer Square consolidated 3 office buildings (to everyone's delight) and it was no surprise to me that we won Geekwire's Geekiest office award for 2018! We are finding ways to be active in our neighborhood and give back to the Seattle community.

My hard work over the last year was rewarded with a significant pay increase. But pay isn't everything. I feel appreciated every day and that my voice and contributions are valued. Flexible work schedules with opportunities to work from home as needed provide excellent work/life balance. We have a mentor/mentee program in place and new employees are assigned an "Ava Buddy" to help them onboard.

Our leaders are doing a much better job of communicating with our teams through monthly all-hands meetings. Questions are candid and answers are honest, which everyone appreciates.

Avalara is a great place to work. Can we improve? Always.

Advice to Management

Continue along this course of improvement. Your efforts are appreciated! Thank you for listening to us and taking our suggestions to heart.

Pros

Great pay for what could easily be outsourced or automated. Work itself is extremely repetitive. Not ideal if you plan on climbing the ladder quickly.

Advice to Management

Relay to the recruiters that this is an eFiler position with zero necessity to have a business degree.

Pros

Orange is my favorite color

Advice to Management

Leave

Pros

Growing company.. plenty of room for advancement

Pros

Company is growing up post-IPO and making good decisions
Management seems to be listening and responding to issues
Not a lot of red tape for getting things done—opportunity to make an impact and get recognized for it
Smart, authentic people to work with—you won’t find many tech bros here
It’s a good time to be in the tax industry and Avalara is positioned well
Good work/life balance

Advice to Management

Focus!

Pros

Office has great people and decent management

Pros

Growing (recent IPO)
Lots of market opportunity
Lots of internal opportunity
Got everything they need to be another very successful Seattle tech company

Advice to Management

Get real about what counts as "really important" or "urgent"

Pros

In the four years I’ve been working in the marketing department, I’ve seen continual efforts for improvement in employee satisfaction. (Keep in mind the experience at any company will vary drastically based on the team and the level of employee writing the review. Lots of disgruntled ex employees here whose perspectives are drastically different than what I’ve experienced.) Some pros: Recognition and growth opportunities for top performing employees. Flexible remote work opportunities. Great culture and lots of fun and talented co-workers who support each other. Good pay compared to all my past employers. I absolutely love working for Avalara. I feel so lucky and definitely glad I made the move here originally.

Advice to Management

Stay in the know. Skip level meetings are great to be sure you’re getting the full picture of the challenges and needs of all the teams. Keep finding ways to promote from within whenever possible to keep long time employees around. Don’t ever lose the core Avalarian culture that has made us so successful!

Pros

Amazing people to work with

Pros

Not many anymore. The software is great.

Advice to Management

Start over. Rethink strategy. Put your employees first.