Hootsuite Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

- Collaborative culture - Work-life balance - Young working force - Interesting problems to solve - Working on scaling problems - Startup mentality

Cons

- Some processes need more maturity - Using obscure or non-industrial languages (e.g., Scala, Go)

Pros

- Work with smart people on challenging projects - Kind, empathetic co-workers - Pretty good work/life balance - Good Software Development managers - Lots of opportunities for learning and career growth

Cons

- As the company has grown, it has gotten less agile and exciting, more of a corporate feel - Less autonomy for teams, more long term planning, more top-down projects, increasing focus on predictability above all else

Pros

- Great learning opportunities for those beginning their careers - Developers you get to work with are great people for the most part - Good work/life balance; a pretty social company - Lots of interesting problems that need fixing

Cons

- Management fails to listen to development concerns and continually forces new features despite pretty large issues in underlying systems and development practices - Lack of focus on building quality UI/UX despite their desire to "make UI/UX a differentiator" - CEO is purely in it for himself rather than putting the company first (he's a 45 year old party boy that abuses the office for his own pleasure; ex his party room at the office that only he gets to use) - Past sexism issues that were ignored by multiple levels of management until someone on a completely different team got involved (all but one of these managers are still there)

Pros

This has been my most favorite workplace ever!! I am telling 101% truth here. Extremely good work-life balance, get in just before 8 and disappear before 4:15. Team Managers are cool and we often troll each other for fun. Amazing snacks and fruits!! The gym is small and smelly but functional! Free yoga and fitness classes! Also free courses provided by HR on how to behave and interact around here. Easy brownie points! If you push the right buttons of your manager's manager, you get promoted within a year like myself! :) Don't really get all the negativity here. Hootsuite is famous for paying above market and doesn't expect too much of your work. In order to survive you must show up properly in team meetings. Key is to make people think you are way more important than you really are.

Cons

Hardly any honestly. No weird politics, just trolling around. There will be stressful periods but you gotta know how to push for extra temps. Why kill yourself right? It's just a job guys... I believe most complainers here have nothing better to do or just never satisfied despite their fat pay cheques. Not a single one person I know ever complained about pay and workload. Sales peeps just getting too greedy!

Pros

Great place to work. You can set up meetings with anyone (seniors, directors) and gain valuable knowledge from these encounters that you would otherwise not be able to do in a larger company. Fosters a growth mindset. Great work/life balance. People are into being healthy and trying new things.

Cons

It's pretty much career limiting to not be social so if you like to just come in and not talk to anyone, it will not work out. Company getting bigger and more structured so growing out of its startup culture abit.

Pros

It's a fun place to work, first and foremost. You're surrounded by fun, smart and friendly people. The team does a great job of organizing social events and at any given time you're likely to see a foosball or pingpong game in action. HS is a great place to grow. Work hard, make an impact, and you'll be rewarded up the career ladder. That said, the work-life balance is probably as good as you can get (the vacation policy is about as good as you can get with a company this size). The business is doing well and the outlook is as good as it's ever been. Great benefits, above average salary, and a good culture make this one of the better workplaces in town.

Cons

There's been a lot of recent change at the executive level, and change in direction, which has caused some ripples of concern. But I think the change is good - a startup like HS that's trying to move into the next phase of growth needs to stay lean and adaptable; it can't be afraid of change. The one con I have here is that maybe the changes could have been communicated earlier and better.