Mapbox Reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(310 total reviews)
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Peter Sirota

52% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Mapbox has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 310 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mapbox 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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310 reviews
1.0
Dec 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance is pretty cool

Cons

Everything else. Compensation is only okay. No bonus or anything else. Only RRSP matching (Canada) and stock options which for all you know can be worth next to nothing. They’ve been meaning to go public but nothing yet because they have more problems everyday. Extremely high turnover rate, which they think is because of their past problems but they are still deep in trouble. Take my advice and stay away like most new and more senior employees who made the wise decision and left. It’s run by all ex-Amazon employees - a.k.a Jeff bots - but it’s nowhere nearly as successful. Steve jobs said we hire smart people to tell us what to do, but mapbox managers tell you what to do so all the smart people end up leaving.

2.0
Feb 11, 2022

Hard Pass

Recommend
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Pros

The promise of this place was the product and the people who helped build it.

Cons

Read the tea leaves: The contrast between the saccharine 5 star yarns from recruiters and the 1 and 2 star realities of the people who've been put through the wringer here speaks volumes. Fully expect to have leadership that's unresponsive when you and your team ask for support, then jumps all over you with unrealistic asks and lays blame for situations entirely out of your control (likely exacerbated by their poor leadership decisions in the first place). Many middle managers end up falling in line and kowtowing to senior leadership, to the detriment of the ICs who desperately need their support. Talk to people who have left. They're not hard to find, whether they've ran voluntarily or been pushed out in the post-Unionization effort's mass exodus. Talk to the people who are still around. Newer C-suiters in the last year had the potential to bring real change, but many ended up becoming patsies to Draconian leadership, contributing to a lack of any real change. rm -rf

4.0
Oct 16, 2018

Was good at the beginning

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Great salary, good people, great project

Cons

Growing to fast, people are not the priority anymore

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