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Adam Singolda
50 Ratings
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They make sure everyone gets a good work life balance (in 6 reviews)
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Very fast paced with lots of learning (in 6 reviews)
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Upper management constantly talks about how much money the company is making but most employees never see any of that money (in 5 reviews)
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A lot of work - don't go there for the vacation policy, you won't use it anyway (in 2 reviews)
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"Great culture, lots of passionate engineers and sweet office"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Taboola full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
- the team is top notch and really cares about shipping great products
- get to use the latest technology stacks and contribute to them when need be
- huge amount of big data and network reach provide for fun engineering problems
- office location has view of all of LA and is near many restaurants downtown
- interns and new hires get to work on production code
- company trajectory and drive is an unbelievable rocket ship
- fun to work at (internal hackathons, free food, great people and challenges)Cons
- large difference in timezones between offices is a bit of a challenge.
- being centralized in DTLA means most will have 30-45 min minimum of commute timeTaboola 2017-02-07 17:07 PST -
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"Lots of Energy and Great People"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Taboola full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Very fast paced with lots of learning
- Great culture with great people who want you to succeed
- It feels like a startup, which means you can impact the product at a high level
- Good work-life balance
- Immediately get to contribute to the product (even as an intern or junior engineer)
- Use cutting edge technologies to solve big data and machine learning problemsCons
The startup culture (fast pace, learning on the job, etc.) is not for everyone, so be sure that's the type of work you want!
Taboola 2017-03-19 12:59 PDT -
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"Not for me"
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Neutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Taboola (More than a year)
Pros
Some nice people
Growing fastCons
Growing too fast, the impression is that most managers have no clue of what they are doing, salary is very low for the industry, very low possibility to grow.
Advice to Management
Listen to your employees. They are mostly unhappy.
Taboola 2017-03-14 13:53 PDT -
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"High stake challenges and projects, in a fun environment"
Star Star Star Star StarRecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Taboola full-time
Pros
From the first day you join, you're going to be involved in high stake and big impact projects. Because of the skyrocket trajectory of the company, you end up working across many timezones and offices (LA, NYC, TLV, London, Bangalore, Bangkok, etc.), as well as dealing with international (Germany, UK, Japan, Korea, Mexico, France, etc) and big names customers and partners in the Industry. Taboola R&D uses the latest technologies (ReactJS, NodeJS, Spark, Kibana, Cassandra, BigQuery, etc.) so as an engineer, this is the dream job when you want to get your hands on real life use cases! Many Taboola R&D teams also follow Scrum and pushes you to deliver quick-to-market and production-ready increments of your projects. There's never a dull moment!
TL;DR - If you are scientifically curious, you love solving complex puzzles, you enjoy working in a fun team, and you are not afraid of new technologies, come join our Taboola R&D team!
PS: there's also catered food, free drinks, ping pong, outing/activities, hackathon, meet upCons
This is a challenging environment, people will question your decisions so it's important that you can articulate your thoughts. You're also typically part of a team, and if you're doing great, you will be moved to other teams to broaden your knowledge of the technology stack, so you could be involved in front end and middle layer technologies! At times, it will feel like a mountain of work to do in a short amount of time, but you're here to learn to be more efficient, better manage your time and priority, and work as a team.
Commute time is bad but this is LA, so little we can do /shrugsAdvice to Management
Continue hiring top engineers
Keep and grow the cultureTaboola 2017-02-08 14:00 PST -
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"Work with some of the smartest people to learn and grow"
Star Star Star Star Star- Work/Life Balance
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Taboola full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
You work with some of the smartest people in the industry
The team has no egos. They just want to get the job done by innovating and staying ahead of the curve
You work with cutting edge tech stack. There is always something to learn everyday
The data size that Taboola is working on is comparable to any of the big companies out there. So every change that you make is going to impact at a large scale
The management is pretty understanding and fair. They make sure everyone gets a good work life balance
Living in LA, the team has to deal with traffic and long commute times. The management works with you to provide flexible work hours and if needed work from home days as well
Plenty of free food in the office. Twice weekly free lunches catered
In all of my career this is the best team I ever worked withCons
You need to be prepared to learn. You will find a lot of smart people which might be intimidating. Although they are all very helpful and very good mentors
You will need to adjust to being part of a multi timezone, multi continent company. Although you don't need to work on other timezones, but sometimes you need to wait the next day to get an answer since the other person is on a different continentAdvice to Management
Lets continue the amazing growth and connect more people with Taboola's discovery platform. Lets make sure the work culture does not change as Taboola grows.
Taboola 2017-02-07 11:49 PST -
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"Great company shifting towards corporate culture"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Taboola full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Smart people
Great work environment
Strong senior management
Largely maintained start-up culture
If you're good there are opportunities to help grow the businessCons
Lacks structure in some areas
Employee career path not clearly defined
Pay isn't competitive on averageAdvice to Management
Pay your employees more, thats why people are leaving!
Taboola 2017-01-15 05:51 PST -
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"Arrogant, egoist, manipulative, corrupt VP"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Taboola part-time (More than a year)
Pros
Few Intelligent engineers do great job
Engineers oriented
Free lunch on 2 days
Average HealthcareCons
- Lots of bureaucracy, egos and favoritism towards some employees
- Underqualified people in position and expect engineers to deliver on behalf them.
- Favorite employees gets PTOs others doesn't get PTO even though you are eligible to get it leagally. You have to inform 3 months prior to get approved, this is somethig new at this location.
- No coding standards and guide lines.
- No appreciation for employees who work hard and finish their tasks.
- Few talented other employees are unhappy with above, but never report it to higher management.
- No career growth as its not big company.
My advice is not to consider this company and don't waste your talent herelAdvice to Management
Higher management should look into it.
Taboola 2017-01-18 03:41 PST -
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"Dream job - love it here!"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Taboola full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Really love working here. Amazing product that works--super rare in ad tech. Great sales team, good compensation structure. Management is accessible and open/honest. Amazing culture in the office, solid work/life balance.
Cons
Still a startup forging its path. Lots of new ideas are tested and either work fast or fail fast. Seems a little ADD sometimes, but that's also the fun of a startup. Spend less money on food/drinks in the office and give us more money in our pocket.
Advice to Management
More direction on how to define success would be helpful. Inter departmental communication would improve (but I know everyone is working on it).
Taboola 2016-10-27 05:43 PDT -
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"Tons of potential, misguided and corrupt management"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOPros
-Lots of vibrant intelligent individuals across teams
-Team oriented, minimal egos amongst team members
-Nice office, good perks (food, gym subsidy, parties etc)
-Good work life balanceCons
-Management is drunk with power, misguided. No clear direction
-Lots of bureaucracy and favoritism, making it difficult to move around the business. Underqualified people in positions they should not be in
-Disorganized, expectations are never clear, product is hampered by old standards that the business is scared to move on from.
-Too much in-fighting and finding reasons not to do things. Arrogance.Advice to Management
Develop and empower your talent, pay market value, don't screw your people over. Find managers that are qualified or train the ones you have.
Taboola 2016-09-12 19:51 PDT -
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"Fast Growth, Poor Employee Treatment"
Star Star Star Star Star- Work/Life Balance
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookI have been working at Taboola full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- some smart, driven people
- laid back office culture
- good training programCons
- preferential treatment and early promotions for few "favorites"
- unclear vision
- Senior Management only cares about themselves, junior employees are treated expendableAdvice to Management
It would be nice to know about big partnerships and acquisitions ahead of time instead of through the CEO's instagram updates.
Taboola 2016-09-08 13:56 PDT -
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Taboola Response
Feb 22, 2017 – Director of Talent
Thanks so much for the positive words. The hackathon was fun! Yep, you’re right that time is challenge, but the LA team is sooooo worth it.