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3.0

36% would recommend to a friend

(2,263 total reviews)
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35% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

X has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,263 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The X employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Jul 7, 2014

Addenda to an earlier review

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

I have nothing to add from my previous comments, but this requires twenty words, so I need to add them.

Cons

Working in SRE has some serious issues. There is an embedded approach -- so one gets one's work assignments and performance assessments from an engineering organization, but promotion/compensation decisions are made by SRE management. It depends on how engaged the SRE management is with the SRE, and some SRE managers are extremely disengaged, or are willing to accept the word of the engineering manager. The engineering manager does not have any incentive to promote the work of the SRE, particularly when the work is a joint project with engineering. Similarly, engineering managers will be more focused on the work of their direct reports, and rightly so. This makes the entire SRE employee review process capricious. Strong SREs are more readily lost through bad management, and SRE reviews (conducted entirely within SRE management structure) are more prone to second hand information and favoritism.

1.0
Apr 25, 2012

Management needs a clue

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Unlimited time off for vacation. Free food. Good health benefits. 401K is non-matching but decent. Location is ideal in SF.

Cons

Two camps of people. Old blood vs new blood. Old blood refuses to give into scalability of new blood. Considers newer employees with experience from other successful companies a threat and will not consider any recommendations. Company still has no idea how to monetize, but still continues to spend money left and right on hiring/acquiring talent with no long term plans.

1.0
Oct 2, 2023

Was amazing prior to Elon

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

* None, no more equity, bad pay, from what I hear from friends still there its a total mess.

Cons

I quit after several rounds of layoffs impacting my most valuable teammates. I hear its a total mess there now. Engineers are pulled around randomly, super disconnected, no concrete vision When Elon first took over he took the tech lead from each team, put them on a skunk works project and told them if they didnt execute the requirements by the following Monday, theyd be canned. All of them worked through the night for the next week. They all committed to a full 100+ hour week, most pulling all nighters multiple days in a row, completed all projects within the requirements, got canned anyways.

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