Could be so much more - Anonymous employee Glympse Employee Review

2.0
Nov 20, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

– Great office & location – Some really talented people who want to make an impact

Cons

Leadership has fostered a culture of fear and distrust. Employee satisfaction and engagement is super low. This is for myriad reasons. Perception amongst employees is that they are expendable, that they can be easily outsourced as replacements. Management won't address employee concerns. When employees have tried to express their concerns with the floundering culture, leadership has responded negatively ("If they don't like it here, they can just leave". "I don't want to hear any more drama") This breeds fear instead of a culture where everyone works together to cultivate a positive, engaged, and innovative environment. Potential new hires: during your interviews, ask why so many people have left in the last year and really pay attention to the answers (it's not due to the refocus of the business).

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Glympse Response
6y
Thank you for your feedback. We are glad you enjoyed the offices and our Team members. I agree with you - our talented team really does want to make a difference; the best group of people together in one company. With regard to your "Cons" and "Advice to Management" comments, this is a very exciting time at Glympse and we have great things to come in the future as we continue to get better. A company like Glympse - one with an entrepreneurial, innovative feel - is not for everyone, and we wish you the best of luck on your professional journey.

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Pros

Fast environment with lost of learning and personal growth opportunities.

Cons

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2.0
Dec 5, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Peers and the engineering/customer teams are awesome and staffed with great coworkers. If you are comfortable drawing work boundaries with others and are good at being subordinate to certain management, you'll be fine. Lots of opportunity to help existing customers and long backlog of features to build. A small team means you get plenty of responsibility.

Cons

Management pressure runs downhill whether they'd like it to or not. One powerful person on a non-engineering team is particularly cutthroat and awful to work with. Old-fashioned views on work, e.g. valuing exhaustion and efforts that are considered above and beyond; they're far more likely to buy you free coffee and dinner than find you any additional time or resources. Speaking candidly is not valued and even punished by some leadership unless it is fully couched in praise and positivity. Hiring and firing decisions sometimes seem to be made in a vacuum and according to the whims of a few. The company has been around more than a decade, has spent way too much money and has too many investors (see Crunchbase), and doesn't appear to have a great long-term future or return financially. If you go there, it should be for the experience and because they somehow made you the best offer.

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Glympse Response
6y
We very much agree with you that our Team 'is awesome'; we are lucky to have such a great group here at Glympse. We wish you the best in your professional journey and appreciate the time you spent with us to help us with our vision of creating innovative, personalize and efficient customer experiences harnessing the power of location sharing.
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