Liferay Reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(392 total reviews)
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Brian Chan

61% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Liferay has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 392 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Liferay employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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392 reviews
3.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

Been a while since I was there. But it was legitimately an amazing culture. I feel like this being my first job set the bar really high for what a work culture could be like. Christmas gifts. Summer Fridays. Team game sessions. It was awesome. And the people there were really friendly. They also gave bonuses for good performance, which from my experience weren’t hard to get. Starting as a Tester, it wasn’t hard to move up if you showed promise. The work was challenging enough to let you grow without overwhelming you. And it was easy to move up if you proved yourself.

Cons

Low pay starting out as a Tester. Like a few dollars above what I could have been making at a McDonald’s. They brought in young and inexperienced people though so we weren’t as concerned as we should have been. This was pretty much solely for complete beginners in the field. And the pay really reflected that. But even if you proved you could do the work and do it well, the pay ceiling was still painfully low. The pay pretty much was the only thing that stopped this from being the perfect job in my experience. Then they let go of almost all of QA one day. From what I hear it’s an entirely different company now.

2.0
Jun 2, 2026

This is not the same company it used to be

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people to work with

Cons

- low salary - uncertain future & job safety - leadership changes direction all the time - some teams get a team-building event every year, others none at all The CEO mostly collects ideas from X.com and leads his company based on these. In a recent podcast on YouTube, he explains the current round of firings / restructure in a way that he sees himself as the gardener and the company as the grapevine. The Liferay product is the grape. In order for the grape to be strong, he needs to prune and cut the vines that are not strong enough to produce strong grapes. By doing so, he also "frees up" these people. The issue is that often they fail to separate the weak vine from the strong one and they fire good people. He doesn't see that sometimes, if you prune too much, you might hurt the grapevine. The strong vines can become overwhelmed and won’t be able to support the grapes any longer or with the same quality.

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