Hootsuite Employee Reviews about "manager"

Pros

Great brand. Some really great people who are talented and passionate about what they do. Cool offices & perks at HQ.

Cons

1 manager for every 5 people = serious bloat. Hired too many people too quickly without communicating any plan to unify teams. Massive politics and infighting are bringing down the culture. The long-term vision is still unclear. Trying to serve too many markets at once and falling behind as a result.

Pros

- Smart engineers that genienly care about each other's success - Strong, progressive culture at the lower ranks (manager and below) - Collaborative work environment in most development and operation teams - New CEO might turn things around?

Cons

- Work culture and work-life balance depends a lot on the team you're in - Conservative and homogenous culture at the higher ranks (directors and above) - No diversity at all (directors and above) - Women and people of color make less than white males doing the same job (as assessed by a third party auditor) - Pay is below market (as assessed by a third party auditor) - Stock options (RSUs) and benefits are well below market - No long-term innovation or competitive strategy - High turnover + hiring freeze = overworked teams - Huge employee retention issues

Pros

- 9-5 is pretty consistent, minimal overtime required - Good culture around asking questions; most of the folks are pretty humble - Social atmosphere - You can get your work done during the time you are at work

Cons

- Non-existent technical leadership. Software development directors/managers have not written code in years. You will hear many buzzwords and acronyms being thrown around by these people. - Technical managers do not have much/any coding experience; you are dealing mostly with people that have 'soft' skills - i.e. creating jira tickets, scheduling meetings. No actual mentorship of any kind takes place here. Poor developers have been promoted to managers - the louder you work, the higher your probability of landing one of these roles. Technical Managers pride themselves in staying away from the code. You will never see a manager raise a pull request in order to solve an issue. If you are looking for technical leadership, you will not find it here as there are no leaders. - There is an over abundance of 'project/agile' advocates in the company. These people have titles of 'software engineer' and 'development coach' , but they don't actually write code. They excel at scheduling meetings, editing google docs and creating jira tickets. - Poor tech stack. Extremely hard to make simple changes due to the lack of a proper dev environment - you cannot run everything on your own machine (due to the unnecessary adoption of a microservice architecture, they have a dev 'cloud' setup). You are dealing with a PHP monolith that lacks significant test coverage. JVM culture and unnecessary usage of design patterns are a common theme. - Outdated laptops - 2011 MBP - Developers lack fundamental CS skills; the bar is set very low. Take a look at the interview questions that are being asked. - Co-ops and Junior Developers often outperform developers that have been at the company for years. It's common to see co-ops mentoring full-timers. - Configuration over convention. As a developer, a significant portion of your time is spent setting up your machine depending on the project you are working on. There is an abundance of tribal knowledge. Deployments are not trivial due to flaky tests and inconsistent environments. - Technical debt is seldom addressed. There is too much to count. - Very poor code reviews. 'Extremely' large pull requests are a common occurrence. - Security and Ops teams are floating around creating unnecessary procedures to stay relevant in the company. Teams are more than capable of managing their own products, however they are not given the autonomy.

Pros

There are quite a few pros to working at Hootsuite: - Good Vacation - People are very talented and always ready to help - Comfortable work environment - Good social activities, great for meeting people - Fitness classes on site - Work/life balance

Cons

Unfortunately there are a lot of problems in the organization. I get the sense that 4-5 years ago it was an awesome place to work and really grow your career, which is why I was so excited to work at Hootsuite. I wanted to learn and grow with the company. However, there are major issues: - Low Pay. Everyone says it, but these days for Vancouver, it's really, really low. This demonstrates a lack of recognition of what's happening in the market place. - Lack of career growth. There are many people that have grown up with the company and experienced great opportunities. If you came on board in the last couple of years, it's been non existent. There's no standardization or documentation for career goals, promotions, training, etc. You are left treading water, wondering how you are performing and what you can improve on. - Bro culture. If you had said to me that this was an issue at Hootsuite when I first got hired, I wouldn't have believed it. Until I saw it in action. Working there felt like a popularity contest. I was told by my manager that I needed to become friends with certain individuals if I had any hope of progressing - unfortunately the caliber of my work simply wasn't going to be enough. I have never experienced this attitude in the workplace before. - Volatile environment. Key people would just disappear. People would leave and would not be replaced. There was a common complaint from leadership about how difficult it was to find good talent in Vancouver, yet the company allows very talented people to walk out the door everyday. It's very expensive to keep recruiting and replacing employees.

Pros

- You can make some really great friends here. - The people here are all so smart and are open to sharing their knowledge with you. - True tech company culture (the retreats are so much fun!) - The leaders are really smart and have great experience. - Dog friendly office. - Great office space. - Gym classes and gym facilities are unreal. - A great place to learn and start your career at. - Great marketing and brand presence. - Has a strong grasp of its target market and place in the industry.

Cons

- HR doesn't do a whole lot when you complain about feeling uncomfortable or disrespected by a colleague. This needs to change. When someone complains to you about feeling disrespected by a colleague, do something about it! Don't be another Uber. - Some senior leadership can be unprofessional during retreats. - They say there's a lot of professional growth opportunities but that only happens if you're lucky to have a manager who allows you to grow. Some managers don't foster growth. - Starting to lose some really awesome OG people. - U/X of the product needs a major update.

Pros

there're some good people there - unfortunately I was a bit prideful marc bitanca, craig ryomotot, julia freeman, marc chiax, raquek hirsh - all smart buggers if you get to work with them d it

Cons

none - i was a media buyers in this company and when I had to do a media buy on linkedin my boss infact asked to consult the linkedin partnerships manager thinking i was skipping over people's heads when I was actually traffickinng self serve ad's? same thing with facebook and google? they are not smart

Pros

Nice people, nice office, lots of sales resources to help you sell, fun parties. Learned nothing about sales, only about how to maneuver in a very political corporate office setting...

Cons

Everyone is sucking up to CEO Ryan Holmes for social attention etc - its SO fake and everyone does it non-stop, major popularity contest Hootsuite employees are called Owls, but they are really just Sheeple drinking the kool-aid Leadership is a bunch of social-political freaks obsessed with gossip, love office drama, chat behind peoples backs about rumor etc. I was honest about a situation where leadership went overboard, took it up with HR anonymously, somehow by the NEXT MORNING my manager knew and I was being punished for speaking up. Ever heard the term 'boys club' to describe a work environment, this is like a high school girls club... very caddy, very political. Leadership SUCKED overall