Fitbit Reviews

Pros

- Flexible office hours, free snacks, lots of swag

Cons

- No Employee recognition - No career growth - Too much internal politics

Pros

Fun atmosphere, people are generally respectful

Cons

No focus on development. Some teams are totally disregarded.

Pros

Interesting hardware challenges to work on. Healthy snacks, gym and happy hour.

Cons

Defective communications. The preferred mode of reporting a problem was to attack someone in a group meeting or to complain to their manager rather than discuss it directly. The lower and mid-level managers that I dealt with there were the most toxic and two-faced I have ever known in the IT business. Their greatest talent was their ability to tell people above them and below them whatever they wanted to hear. Even the happy hour had its bad side. One person used it to schmooze with influential people and eventually got himself appointed our manager. His egocentrism destroyed our group. He frequently postponed standup meeting to take extended lunch breaks. When the network in our building went down on a weekend, he insisted that he would be the one go to investigate it, but he had to take his cat to the vet first. Our lab ended up losing an entire day of testing and he blamed it all on another department. His focus was on forcing us to use configuration management scripts written in Romania to make our lab conform. It was an idea one of the directors liked, so the pros and cons didn't matter. One of the scripts kept bricking the macs so that they had to be re-imaged but management didn't care as long as they could tell the director they were being "efficient" by re-using someone else's code. His replacement was overheard telling someone that our group would need to be told how to eat an orange. It was a fun place to work at times but the Google buyout probably was the last nail in the coffin. It will all be about data collection and the innovation will be forgotten.

Pros

Work-Life Balance, Team Communication, Collaboration, Company you can believe in, Covers a rare aspect of tech with end-user hardware

Cons

Company trajectory, Progress, Budgeting, Most people take a pay cut to work on this team

Pros

Company has a noble cause and decent product.

Cons

Due to the Google buyout and less-than-stellar profitability since 2016, the company has experienced high rates of attrition and layoffs causing high amounts of uncertainty to the workforce.