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"Great Company, Incredible Growth Opportunity"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at HashiCorp full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Growing very quickly
Tons of career advancement opportunity
Great technology that is becoming ubiquitous
Great community that seems to be doubling every 9-12 months
Great market opportunity to address and disrupt
Great Sales organization being built for scale
Individuals get weekly feedback on their progress as well as what they need to be successfulCons
Typical growing pains...
-trying to add people fast without sacrificing quality,
-trying to ensure customer success grows appropriately with Sales/Marketing.
Performance based equity or Comp bumps are after 2years vs industry standard 1yearAdvice to Management
Keep up the great progress. Consider giving more performance based equity incentives as earned.
HashiCorp 2018-08-22 22:22 PDT ![HashiCorp Logo]()
"Excellent workplace, diversity-friendly"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at HashiCorp full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
- Smart product managers develop a roadmap for each engineering team based on market opportunities.
- Features are designed and written via an RFC process with ensures well-considered design.
- Kind, knowledgeable, diverse engineering team.
- User experience is preferred over haste.
- The company truly cares about customers and the community at all levels.
- The company also truly cares about employees and strives to be a positive, healthy place to work.
- There are no curmudgeons here who will say no to your ideas or get entrenched in doing things their way.
- Product diversity means the company will be more stable long-term.
- This is not an empty statement - if you are a minority, this is a great place for you. Hashicorp is diverse, and is actively minority-friendly.
- With "be humble" as one of its core values, Hashicorp encourages people to check egos at the door and bring their best work AND true kindness.
- Healthcare for tranz folks is included in the plan, though I don't know the specifics.Cons
- Since it's a remote position, you must be self-motivated and a self-starter; if so you will thrive.
- If you are used to pushing aggressively to get your way or putting your foot down, you won't succeed.
- It's not your code, it's everyone's code, and you will need to write your best and then bend to input; this can sometimes be difficult but it's a positive thing.
- If you do not work well with diverse people, you will not thrive; Hashicorp is geographically, culturally, and language-diverse, LGBTQ-friendly, and woman-friendly. If I haven't listed the way you are diverse here, it's not an intentional error, we want you too! You can come and be yourself. If you are not a minority, you're of course welcome here too! Just be kind.
- Healthcare isn't always as good as other tech companies, however, this can be factored into you negotiation.Advice to Management
Thank you for creating a wonderful space in the tech community!
HashiCorp 2018-11-13 16:28 PSTHelpful (7)
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"Feast of famine"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at HashiCorp full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Products are heading in the right direction. Engineering team has strong leadership and the market is embracing the messaging. Events staff is superb.
Cons
Sales management is learning on the job how to treat people the right way. Lots of micromanagement work that needs to be done. Expectations for Enterprise reps are way off base for a startup company.
HashiCorp 2018-08-13 12:24 PDTHelpful (15)
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"Trust the product, not management"
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Doesn't RecommendDisapproves of CEOI worked at HashiCorp full-time
Pros
Great product, but product is not enough
Cons
Senior management is very tight within their little group, lacking honesty and transparency. While it's not ALL boys, it's still a club, insular in many respects. I would not trust my career and development to them. Take it for what it is - an interesting short-term opportunity, with little long term attraction.
Advice to Management
Move on.
HashiCorp 2018-04-17 14:33 PDTHelpful (6)
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"Great culture, great products, growing pains to be expected..."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at HashiCorp full-time
Pros
Brilliant founders and early product and engineering leaders humble enough to build great products and define the market but not try and run the company through it's second phase of growth. Their commitment to the company principles is a key reason HashiCorp continues to thrive. Hiring amazing new people into engineering and product management to help with growth.
Cons
Some internal decisions take longer than you would like. Leadership works very (too) hard to not give up on certain people when it's time to move on. Need more customer facing resources to ensure customer success.
Advice to Management
Keep focused on the culture you have built, the people are what make this place great.
HashiCorp 2018-02-18 06:30 PSTHelpful (9)
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"Good People Make a Great Company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at HashiCorp full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Fast paced, extreme high growth company that provides technology that helps the world move to cloud .. but with this early success we continue to be very focused on sustaining a positive and humble culture .. and this seems authentically important to the management team .. its not just lipservice.
Some of the best people I have worked with in my career, work here at HashiCorp. HashiCorp employees are generally driven, kind, committed, brilliant and specifically the product and engineering teams have wonderful chemistry while doing great work. Most everyone is bought in to the Tao .. and that makes it a good place to be
Armon and Mitchell are awesome with a clear vision of where they want to take the technology strategically all while being humble, brilliant, always ready to help, and super accessible
The technology is compelling and relevant with a great open source community around it. CEO is impressive who seems up close like a deeply intellectual strategic thinker, assertive and good communicator that provides a calming influence to the org, which is important given how fast the company is growing .. marketing, support and product leadership are excellent .. sales VP is impressive and capable .. both VPs of eng transitioning their roles are super competent. Overall, the management team is good and that is reflected in the pace of which the company has grown in the last year while still maintaining our core principles
HashiCorp at its very center is an engineering focused company that has a large engineering org footprint given the relative size of the company. The quality and depth of the engineering teams is amazing and its inspirational to work with this collection of talent every day. Management actively strives to ensure that the engineering staff who are mostly distributed in home offices around the country and the world feel included, empowered, and informed as much as possible - and while its not always perfect outcomes, it does seem that there is always a perfect level of effort by engineering management and team members to ensure that it all stays together and worksCons
Its not to say that we don't have challenges .. we do .. and they can be daunting and frustrating at times . and we can always be better at addressing them. These challenges so far seem to be the type of standard issues that any organization would have growing this quickly and most probably magnified by the extreme pace of new customers, new employees, new systems, accelerating revenue, new benefits, so many products, global expansion, distributed employees etc
Advice to Management
Keep doing what you are doing, talking to your teams and valuing their feedback. The culture is critical and its not all about the numbers all the time and this balance is what makes HashiCorp such a uniquely wonderful company .. and I believe the trade secret that has made us so successful so quickly. As we continue to grow at this pace in the next year please ensure that we continue to value it and protect our core values from apathy, from changing management priorities, and are aggressive in protecting the org morale from the very few internal net detractors. The focus on culture and our values makes this all work including the numbers
HashiCorp 2018-02-01 07:41 PSTHelpful (3)
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"Great Company, Great Product, Great People"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at HashiCorp full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Some of the best people I have worked with. Everyone is working towards a common goal and the energy is very positive throughout all departments
Cons
Nothing that is out of the ordinary from a high growth start up
Advice to Management
Keep working towards the common goals. Keep the culture in front view as it is the lifeblood of the company. Overall, great work!
HashiCorp 2018-01-22 12:49 PSTHelpful (16)
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"Indecisive leadership, alienation and "frat boys" culture"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at HashiCorp full-time
Pros
Challenging workspace, frequently changing, fast paced, amazing product, founders are still involved and great people.
Product and engineering teams are very collaborative, humble and know their stuff.Cons
The whole organization is very male dominated and feels like fraternity. Except for few VPs no one is empowered to make any decisions, and everything has to go through 1-2 individuals. Woman are not empowered or supported, rather are told to “toughen up”.
Executive team feels like "frat boys gone wild". There is hardly any direction from the CEO, it depends on the time of the day or the influencer of the day what is his direction. The organization seems to be run by other VPs in the company that do not have the experience, knowledge, and do not follow the founders Tao principles.
Culture suppose to be humble, but corporate is as far from humble as possible. Not only decisions change every day, but there is a lot of alienation between each corporate team and a lot of backstabbing and drama. For start up this size, the corporate seems very politicized and led by CEO that supports this type of behavior.
HR seems powerless or oblivious to mistreatments going on. You can submit a complaint to HR, but you should not expect any type of investigation or even an answer from the HR that the complaint has been received.HashiCorp 2018-01-14 20:44 PSTHelpful (7)
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"Product & Team- A, Exec Team- B, Benefits- C"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at HashiCorp full-time
Pros
Most coworkers are really great to work with, our Sales team is great, and the company has a very positive outlook. HashiCorp is solving real problems for huge companies. People love our products and want them, as opposed to companies desperately trying to sell themselves. Recently raised a Series C for $40MM.
Cons
Benefits/salaries, HR, and retention:
The company is very thrifty, which extends to subpar compensation & benefits. You will find better benefits and perks at pretty much any other tech company. Most people have taken a pay cut to join HashiCorp because they love the product.
HR seems to avoid answering questions directly and is not the type of HR department you go to for help or advice on your manager, job, or similar issues. They promised an expanded benefits package but failed to deliver on it and yet acted like it was drastically better. Some of the executive team is great though- Sales, Marketing, and Armon especially.
We also seem to be hitting that startup stage where we don't always deliver on product deadlines. Engineers have been leaving for other companies. The next year should be a big one in dictating if HashiCorp wants to become competitive in the market for taking care of employees and becoming a desirable place to work beyond passion for the product.Advice to Management
Show your employees you value them, starting with competitive compensation & benefits.
HashiCorp 2017-11-10 13:52 PSTHelpful (4)
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"Recruitment"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at HashiCorp full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Outstanding vision by the founders for identifying a huge need in both the data center and cloud infrastructure spaces, which is efficient infrastructure automation using tools that don't require heavy lifting (i.e. hundreds of lines of code).
Cons
The company is growing so fast, the pace of work keeps you very busy.
Advice to Management
Keep doing what your doing!
HashiCorp 2017-10-25 15:19 PDT
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HashiCorp Response
Sep 7, 2018
Thank you for your feedback. We’re all excited about HashiCorp’s opportunity in the market! We want all our team members to have the same great experience that you are having and will keep your advice in mind as we continue growing.... MoreLess