5 star reviews are fake - Anonymous employee Redbooth Employee Review

1.0
May 17, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some good people that were fun to work with. Free parking. Nice coffee machine.

Cons

All the positive reviews were written at the request of upper management within your first 30 days of employment ("the honeymoon phase"). Of course a new person is going to feel obliged to write a positive review considering it's going to show up 2 days later. It's tough to recruit to Redwood City so they needed to "fluff" the numbers to excite prospective employees. Executive management is solely responsible for the demise of Redbooth. The only executive that truly understood the operations of the business was laid off because he wasn't a "yes man." The rest of the leadership team thought it was smart to change the business model, target market, strategy and pricing structure multiple times in less than a year. Needless to say, revenue has taken a drastic hit. Rather than building or improving features that customers requested, the product team simply stopped supporting them or ripped them out completely. Great for churn. Overall, the market is crowded and none of the product features dominate the competition. You can get the entire feature suite of Redbooth for free if you do a few google searches. All of the California employees outside of the product/marketing team have been laid off.

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5.0
Oct 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Redbooth has been a total roller coaster, but since the merger in Sept 2017 everything has been great. We are under a new CEO, and the combined company has an amazing team and strong focus. They have an aggressive hiring roadmap to build a delightful product and company. I am personally excited for the future. A lot of the reviews on Glassdoor paint a nasty picture of Redbooth, but that was in the past. And the people that were awful no longer work here. Thankfully.

Cons

Not all of the changes have been good for everyone. There were layoffs, and high turnover at the management level. It slowed down technical development and company growth.

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5.0
Feb 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The CEO is super laid back and really welcomed me to the company, not only that, he's very savvy in the business sense and you can tell that the goals he has set for the company will be attainable with his work ethic. Coming from a bigger company exposure is in a way handed to you, at a start-up you need to pave your own way to grab people's attention and show them you are a quality product. The CEO is really stepping things up and creating new opportunities and partnerships that will dramatically strengthen Redbooth's future. It is a really inspiring time to be a part of this company. From a team point-of-view, everyone is really laid-back and fun. They find a nice balance between work and play and there have been plenty of company and team events that help as stress-relievers and with team bonding as well. The team consists of a variety of ages and experiences but we all generally share the work hard play hard ethic!

Cons

Since its still a start-up, there is a lot of work that goes into being a part of this team. You need to make sure you find time to balance your work and stay on top of what is going on. I work in sales so you need to make your own success and this route may not be paved out for you. Things are constantly changing and we are continually trying to better processes. This is not really a con but I do want to stress that working here isn't sunflowers and daisies, you need to put work in to see results, but hey that's sales for ya. :)

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