Braze reviews

4.6

100% would recommend to a friend

(300 total reviews)
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Bill Magnuson

100% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Braze has an employee rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 300 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Braze employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
May 21, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Not many. The lunches are nice, but really that's it. Unlimited vacation IF you can get away from the mounds of work poured on you due to the last minute nature of everything. Lots of drinking and partying, but the bad communication, lack of honesty and the unspoken "do what I say or we'll block you out" policy results in people working crazy hours to cover lack of management's organization. Ultimately people are disgruntled and paranoid.

Cons

Lots of $ for "veneer initiatives" but not for what is really required to make things work; lots of backstabbing; pour on boarding; non-sensical decision making, not supportive of employees who don't kiss up and don't listen when given feedback; if you click with management, you get away with anything; they lie about their numbers and growth and do NOT put their customers first. People are paranoid and self-absorbed. If you don't care about your career track try it, but if you do, they'll set you back.

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Braze Response
7y
Wow – a very negative review. Braze is always open to feedback, and as a company, we’re always trying to get better. We’d like to address your concerns and always encourage our employees to come to the People Team to confidentially discuss any issues. You indicated you are a former employee but we still encourage you to reach out the People Team if you are willing to discuss. You made some very serious and 100% false claims about company performance and investments. We want to ensure you understand who are investors are: Braze has received $175.1M in funding from some of the most prestigious VCs, including Benchmark, Meritech, Spark, and many more. All numbers that the company has published publicly are accurate. Our board of directors hold us to a high standard and would not stand for the spread of false information. Not to mention, this is illegal. We agree that communication can always be better, especially as we’re growing at the rate we are. We are working hard to improve our communications. If you have more constructive feedback on how to make communications better, we’d love to take it into consideration. You mentioned poor onboarding. We have a very comprehensive onboarding that gets new employees up to speed on the company, our product, and our culture. We’ve added some new members to the People Team that are making updates and improvements to our onboarding process and approach each month. If you have specific suggestions we’d love to hear them. You made a number of concerning remarks about our culture including backstabbing, not listening to feedback, lack of honesty, and disgruntled and paranoid employees. We feel strongly that this is not the culture we have here, nor is it the type of company we’re trying to build. We do have processes in place with the People Team for employees to report any issue so that we can investigate promptly and thoroughly and take appropriate action as a company. One of our company values is realness. It’s something that we engrain in every employee that joins Braze, and something we take seriously where you can give anyone at Braze (from the CEO down) direct feedback. This approach has helped us get to the place we’re at today. Our values of realness and fresh perspective mean that we value different point of views – this only makes us stronger as a company. We also expect our employees to share and backup their opinions. We take our values, culture, and how we treat each other very seriously. We believe our recent awards are a reflection (Inc. Magazine's Best Workplace 2019 Award, placement on Deloitte for its Tech Fast 500 List, a finalist on Crain’s list of the 100 Best Places to Work in New York City and nomination for Employer of the Year for the 2019 Digiday Worklife Awards). Additionally, we just completed our Fall Employee Engagement Survey through our 3rd party partner CultureAmp. We work with them to ensure accuracy, confidentiality and to understand how we stack up to other companies. We are thrilled to report our overall engagement score is 8% higher than our cohort amongst other CultureAmp customers - a strong indicator that we have overall high employee satisfaction. We are presenting the results to the company during our upcoming All Hands and partnering closely with department heads and leaders on action plans.
2.0
May 13, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Amazing and smart coworkers who are willing to help - Free lunch when the office was opened (not sure if they'll even bring it back once the office reopens) - Pretty decent healthcare plans - Strong product for the most part

Cons

- Compensation is really lacking and not competitive at all compared to other tech companies. The salaries on Glassdoor are inflated - Reviews are inflated - Mid to upper level management claims to be transparent but information is communicated on a need to know basis a lot of the time - Leadership is too focused on optics (making it seem like employees are happy and never want to leave the company) instead of actually fixing what the issues are (I.e the feedback that employees give twice a year during the employee surveys are not really acknowledged)

2.0
Apr 10, 2021

Poor Managers, Poor work culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

People were overall friendly. free lunches, dog-friendly workplace, decent benefits

Cons

There are managers who don't care about you and choose not to spend time to work on problems but cut you off immediately if you speak up. You often see people whispering in the corner throughout the office because there's so much talking behind your backs. The company is a culture that is built on multi-tasking during meetings because there is a never-ending amount of them, pretend that you don't have that much work but end up slaving away at home to get things finished, all while pretending the company culture and work-life balance is great.

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