Engineers beware - Anonymous employee Eventbrite Employee Review

1.0
Apr 13, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Catered lunch 4 days a week

Cons

Of course, a lot of these reviews are biased based on people's experiences. If you're an engineer, I would encourage you to carefully read all of the reviews and consider who wrote these reviews before you make a decision on whether or not to join this company. - Even though I had expressed concerns about my career growth and offered my help to come up with a path for growth multiple times, my manager never once discussed my career growth or options during my time here. - Some of the management here has no business being people managers. I think you'll find this is a common theme among some of the reviews here. - Review process was a joke, so your feedback on your manager won't make a difference. - Poor transparency and communication. People you are working with on projects would be let go, and it would not be communicated to you. - It was a very sales/marketing driven company when I left, which also suggests weak Engineering leadership at the executive level. Features were jammed down developer's throats, and oftentimes incomplete features were released in order to meet deadlines at which time the next feature would get worked on. Tech debt and bad code everywhere. - Not a lot of innovation. - Compensation is on the lower end of the market.

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Eventbrite Response
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Hi there - thanks for your feedback, I'd like to respond here but also invite you to come chat with me to continue the discussion. Career development at Eventbrite is extremely important to me, and it is clear that we fell short of your expectations. We are growing rapidly and with exciting growth comes the responsibility to invest in strong leadership. Your feedback is heard, and we will continue to strive to set our leaders up to create best in career experiences for the Britelings on their teams. On the technical debt side, absolutely - we have more work to do here to get it right and remove the roadblocks that slow down progress / create frustration. I view this as something we HAVE to get right as we continue to scale globally. On the innovation side, we may have a different point of view here as I see Britelings creating micro and macro innovations consistently across the organization. You know how to reach me should you want to chat further! -Julia Hartz, CEO

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