Hootsuite Employee Reviews about "vancouver"

Pros

Overall morale is strong, culture is really fun, great work-play balance, great Mt. Pleasant location.

Cons

Compensation seems to be below market, even in the low-comp market of Vancouver. Product is slow to evolve.

Pros

- a chill environment - you can get by not doing a lot if you keep your head down - some basic internet co perks - coffee, snacks - pay is pretty good depending on where you live. Benefits improved a lot. - Not many options in Vancouver - a lot of people are leaving so good job security if you want to stay - umm

Cons

- Legacy HS people don't want anything to change. Anyone that cares enough to challenge the legacy is pretty quickly shouted down, pushed out, or leaves. - Sprout - $4.5B valuation+, Sprinklr - $350MM raise and upcoming IPO, Hootsuite... - The people put into leadership positions are often the weakest of the bunch (except for current head of CS and Commercial Sales - everyone else...) - Recent leadership hires - don't even know where to start.

Pros

A lot of support for learning available The location is great for access from most parts of Vancouver, especially by bike

Cons

There's not that much diversity at Hootsuite. Especially in higher levels of leadership

Pros

Snacks sometimes, good Toronto office location. The people are great, very much a team although cliques everywhere. Looks great on a resume though

Cons

Terrible pay Terrible commission Terrible hours Teams often pitted against each other Too many meetings that can just be an email Toronto gets shafted, don’t think about coming in later than 8:25 and leaving before 5 while Vancouver office is empty at 4:00.

Pros

- Good work-life balance - Cool company HQ - New hires in satellite offices get to onboard in Vancouver - Easy access to middle-managers, directors and VPs - Ability to sell partner products to increase deal value (Listening, Security etc.)

Cons

- Company product is reliant on what social media companies give. E.g. All companies in the industry want the ability to do direct publishing of Instagram Stories, but are reliant on Instagram Public API for that - 5 VPs (and counting) have left since 2019 - Massive layoffs every 2 year - Some decisions seem to go against agenda set during kick-off - Questionable corporate acquisitions (AdEspresso, Naritiv, UberVu)

Pros

The Toronto Office is a great office and is really driving a lot of growth for the company. The work ethic is really strong and the quality of people really understand how to drive big strategic sales. The management is really top notch and approachable.

Cons

Vancouver is really still the heart of the organization and it feels like good work in the Toronto office goes unnoticed. The product is severly lacking the features to be truly enterprise. A lot of the features that pushed Hootsuite to be #1 in the Forester wave were still in development, which caused us to loose a lot of big deals.