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"Despite an ambitious product timeline, work-life balance is still very reasonable and flexible" (in 7 reviews)
"Supportive work environment and great people" (in 12 reviews)
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"Typical growing pains of a startup becoming a growth company" (in 14 reviews)
"The company has grown quickly (which is a good thing), but has started to lose the "know everyone by name" vibe" (in 2 reviews)
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"A great place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at SeatGeek full-time
Pros
Perks, Vacation Time, Collaborative work environment
Cons
Company is scaling so structure seems a bit in flux
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"Amazing culture and perks but lack of upper management and mentorship"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at SeatGeek full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Everyone is very welcoming and friendly. SeatGeek feels like family, even after I have left. There is no bro-culture or feeling of anyone trying to advance themselves/be on top at all.
- Perks: membership to Spotify, Headspace, CitiBike, OneMedical insurance, frequent team-building activities and outings, and employee -led sports and hobby clubs
- Very flexible working from home policy; everyone more or less manages themselves to a degree and have a lot of autonomy.
- Well stocked office kitchen
- Tradition is kept since the beginnings of the company, there are Thursday presentations and free lunch each week, regular "general attendance meetings", and holiday week events.
- Engineers are given a lot of ownership of the product, and take part in scoping and requirement gathering for new projects.Cons
- Lack of engineering management. SeatGeek does not have many engineering managers, and sometimes it is unclear who manages who within product/engineering.
- Severe lack of UX team: SeatGeek places UX decisions on the shoulders of Product Managers, Product Designers, and front-end developers. It is unclear who gets the final say in design decisions and how some design decisions are made in the first place.
- Poor communication between Product Design and Engineering.
- We have great product designers, but all of them work remotely, which may contribute to the poor communication. Half of the front-end development team is remote as well, and it does not seek like SeatGeek is making effort to bring product design or more of front-end engineering to the NYC office.
- Too much activity in Slack/communication seems more centered around Slack than in-person. This is very subjective though. The office is very quiet as a by-product, but subjectively speaking, I prefer more in-person communication.
- Lack of diversity (but it seems like they are very aware of this and working on it), especially in engineering (currently less than 5 female engineers in a department of 60.
- Lack of mentorship for junior software engineers, too much of a "learn everything on your own" mentality. Senior engineers are not expected (and often do not have time) to be mentors (junior engineers have to explicitly seek out time, and it sometimes feel like it's not very encouraged). I personally don't think SeatGeek is ready to take on any junior engineers based on the stage of growth that it is currently at and the amount of resources available.
- SeatGeek is definitely experiencing lots of growing pains, and takes on more than it can chew sometimes.SeatGeek 2019-01-15 13:02 PSTHelpful (1)
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"Culture is great, but overall needs improvement with compensation"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at SeatGeek full-time (More than a year)
Pros
The people you work with, and the energy in the Portland office are very inviting and fun. You can work overtime if wanted. $120/month ticket stipend. Food/drinks in the office. Really great team. Flexibility.
Cons
The pay is pretty low for Portland, especially for the high caliber work that is expected and executed. The perks are geared toward the NYC office more so than the Portland office.
Advice to Management
Raise wages, evaluate perks.
SeatGeek 2018-12-08 12:43 PST![SeatGeek Logo]()
"Great Company, Fast Growing"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at SeatGeek full-time
Pros
Positive team environment, great company vision
Cons
Lots of company reorganization and change
SeatGeek 2018-11-13 15:31 PSTHelpful (1)
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"I saw bad things"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at SeatGeek full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
- The business is healthy
- Nice office
- Coworkers are niceCons
- Unclear expectations
- Manipulative management
- Unrealistic goals
- Failure to adjust with repeated failures
- Bro culture
- Almost no women engineers
- Poor knowledge sharing
- No shared product visionAdvice to Management
I think SeatGeek was founded as a place where great careers can be made but it only takes a small number of bad managers - managers that want to push out features no matter what the cost - to ruin that for whole portions of the company.
SeatGeek 2018-12-10 14:19 PSTHelpful (2)
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"Incredible place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at SeatGeek full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Standout culture: The people here are incredibly smart but also extremely willing to help and teach. I love working with my team and cross-functionally to solve problems and create new solutions for open ticketing.
Opportunity for career advancement: Lots of great L&D opportunities, and ability to own larger projects.
Transparency: everything at our company is extremely open and honest - we understand why decisions are being made and what their implications are.Cons
KPI-driven: This isn't inherently a bad thing, but sometimes our company is too focused on reaching our OKRs and that ends up hindering progress that we should have been making.
SeatGeek 2018-10-19 13:01 PDT![SeatGeek Logo]()
"Great Culture and Transparency"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at SeatGeek full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Seatgeek has an amazing culture that is extremely inclusive. This makes it an extremely fun place to work. On top of this, weekly all team lunches provide a great level of transparency into all aspects of the company. Everything from team projects to company performance is discussed so you always feel like you have a grasp on how things are going.
Cons
Typical growing pains of a startup becoming a growth company. Nothing major!
SeatGeek 2018-10-19 13:10 PDT![SeatGeek Logo]()
"Love it here!"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at SeatGeek full-time
Pros
SG is a company that truly trusts its employees to do their jobs and push themselves.
Cons
By allowing employees to push themselves, it makes us slightly susceptible to burn-out, but the perks and company culture help alleviate that risk.
Advice to Management
The relaxed atmosphere and lack of urgency for decision-making is mostly good, but can be frustrating at times.
SeatGeek 2018-10-19 13:11 PDT![SeatGeek Logo]()
"Excellent place to work and grow your career"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at SeatGeek full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
- Best part of working at SeatGeek are the people, hands down. Overall talent bar is exceptionally high and the people are some of the most humble, down to earth folks that I've worked with.
- Innovative product, disrupting the industry that's been mired in status quo.
- Lots of opportunities for growth and advancement - the company has grown a lot, and continues to grow, so plenty of ways to make an impact.
- Competitive perks, benefits, beautiful office with great amenities, events, lots of opportunities to socialize and mingle.
- Overall culture. SeatGeek clearly cares about its employees and employee happiness always seems to be a priority.Cons
- Some of the internal tools and processes haven't caught up to the new size/scale.
- We are beginning to experience meeting creep and generally, more administrative overhead.
- Some managers are not as experienced. I know SeatGeek has been trying to address this through additional trainings and just hiring more senior leaders.SeatGeek 2018-10-19 13:25 PDT![SeatGeek Logo]()
"Exceptionally smart and interesting business"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at SeatGeek full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Everyone is very smart and self-sufficient; the business and industry are really fascinating and fun to learn about; people are generally willing to help and develop people
Cons
Culture can sometimes be sports heavy for those not interested in that space
SeatGeek 2018-10-19 13:26 PDT
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