Stacklet reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(12 total reviews)

65% positive business outlook

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12 reviews
1.0
Jun 25, 2022

Terribly Cultured Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

After reading through some of other reviews, I also agree that there was huge product potential that is being wasted with awful direction. The work-life balance is good and the company is full remote. But, these are roughly all I personally feel are the benefits of Stacklet.

Cons

I implore anyone who is considering joining to look at the extreme distribution of reviews here on Glassdoor and I think may tell you how this place operates. I'd like to separate my thoughts into 3 sections: Tech, Culture, and Execution. The Tech. The tech is largely built on legacy systems with little to no understanding of SaaS architecture or security. The development experience is confusing as there simply is no debugging experience for some of the backend services. In addition, there are clearly scale issues already occurring on a system with very little customers. The technical decision making is made from a very small group of people and although they provide "lip-service" that their doors are open, it's far from reality. I agree it is hard to get any movement without having the right ear. The Culture. This is by far the worst thing about Stacklet. I agree with a few of the other reviews here, there is cultural baggage and nepotism from leadership and other people who all came from the same company in the past. If you're not sure, take a look at Linkedin and see the distribution of employees and people in leadership positions. Take a look at the distribution of opinions about Stacklet. There seems to be 2 realities here, but most likely 2 separate experiences working at this company. There is a lack of ability to debate your views here at Stacklet and there are some engineering leaders with short tempers. There isn't diversity of thought here, not to mention a lack of diversity here as well. There is a lack of transparency at the company as well. The decisions are made by a select few and there is a lack of review of the behavior of leadership. Lastly, I'd like to point out that every negative review left here is met with "lip-service" of moving fast, disagree and execute, take risks, or open door policy. These are just words and I don't believe the leaders actually mean what they say. Just look at how the Head of People is gaslighting everyone who leaves a bad review. The Execution. There is a huge open source following for Cloud Custodian that is being squandered with poor leadership and poor execution. With all the technical debt that has already been built, the company moves extremely slowly for a startup and has a difficult time delivering on what customers are asking for. Do you like to understand the business reason for a feature? Good luck on that. Product management is whimsical and honestly just looks like guessing with little direction. There is active rumblings between the founders and leaders as well.

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Stacklet Response
3y
Thank you for your feedback. We value your input in helping shape Stacklet’s culture and future. In response to your areas of concern: Tech As an early stage startup much of our technology is still nascent. Today, we build on native cloud services and serverless. Tomorrow, that may change. The market Stacklet is pursuing has workloads on every major cloud provider and governance of those assets requires managing complexity. Part of Stacklet’s challenge is making this software scale so that it is useful for very small customers and very large customers at the same time. Over the past year, we’ve hired people with much more experience in running production SaaS products and the product has improved immensely, but as usual there are always things that need to be improved. Culture It is a fairly common strategy for early-stage startups to seed the company by hiring people directly from the networks of the founders and first employees. Stacklet hired some of the best talent in open source technologies from within our networks. We are proud of our team and excited to continue growing and expanding outside of our direct networks. Based on feedback from everyone on the team we have taken steps to increase diversity as it relates to hiring outside of our networks and to hiring diverse team members, including the addition of our Talent Acquisition Director. To that end, 80% of our last 10 hires have come from sourcing outside of our networks and 60% of those have been diverse hires. Execution We are excited about the Cloud Custodian community and want to serve our community and our customers as best as possible. As we continue to move forward and deliver on what customers are asking for, we have added Product Management leadership to continue to clarify our priorities and direction to best serve our community. Cloud Native Compliance and FinOps is still a relatively new field (the FinOps Foundation hasn’t even celebrated their 2nd birthday yet!) so we feel that building on a solid open source foundation will lead to better results for customers.
2.0
Apr 11, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Smart and talented engineering folks. * Cloud Custodian community. * Engineers share on-call duty, which helps keep them on front lines. * Remote first company that encourages and provides online experiences and interactions. * The pace and excitement of a startup.

Cons

* Management brings a way of work and baggage from a previous company. * The process for getting new work approved can be side stepped if you have the right ear or are the right person. * Vaccinations and/or masks not required for the company on-site during a pandemic. * Blame culture / lack of blameless retros and post-mortems.

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Stacklet Response
4y
Thank you for this review and for the “pros” you added. We value your thoughts, opinions, and experiences. We are opinionated and passionate at Stacklet. Like many organizations, our team’s opinions have been shaped by our experiences and we want to use those opinions to further Stacklet’s mission. If something associated with a manager’s way of working is directly impacting your ability to accomplish the tasks associated with your role, please bring it to the attention of HR so that we can work with managers to help make changes. Two of our Values are “Disagree & Commit” and “Move Fast & Take Risks”. We’re currently a small company, and everyone at Stacklet has direct access to each other at every level. It is vitally important in this early stage that everyone knows their voice is important to our growth, so long as everyone also realizes that not every suggestion for new work will be approved. If you believe you are not being heard, again, please contact P&C or Travis (our CEO) about it so that we can ensure that you are getting your idea/suggestion to the right people. Our virtual doors are always open. While we certainly want everyone to take their well-being and safety seriously, we’re a fully-remote company that does not require our team members to travel (the on-site is optional). We have followed the CDC guidelines since the onset of the pandemic and continue to follow them today. We encourage vaccinations and mask wearing and will be asking unvaccinated team members to present a negative PCR test before we gather. Lastly, in response to the final bullet: - Our teams schedule time for sprint planning/retros - We’ve hosted a company-wide training session on giving/receiving feedback If you feel that we’re still not approaching retros in a blameless manner, please come to P&C or Travis about it as soon as possible (again, our doors are wide open). We take the culture of Stacklet very seriously and want everyone who works with us to feel that they are heard and respected.
5.0
Apr 14, 2022

Opportunity to work at a "unicorn" with great culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-OSS Project (Cloud Custodian is popular) -Early Traction -Bright minds to work with -Good Culture (Flexible hours, Empowerment to do things, etc. )

Cons

-Initially, too many folks with previous experience working together were joining. For someone new, it was harder to make friends, but it is changing as the company is growing.

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