Top Hat Reviews
Updated Aug 13, 2019
Found 227 reviews
"Free lunch is provided and there is always enough for everyone" (in 29 reviews)
"Great benefits and perks including catered lunch every day" (in 26 reviews)
"products not closely aligned with market demand, over a month each year spent on data entry, high turnover at every level incl" (in 14 reviews)
"Company is growing and there is that potential to become corporate rather than start up environment" (in 12 reviews)
- Featured ReviewHelpful (14)
"Best Place I've Ever Worked"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Top Hat full-time for less than a year
Pros
This is by far my favourite company I've worked at. I enjoy going to work every day and genuinely enjoy all the time I spend here. The people here are fantastic and talented. The people I work with are all people I want to spend time with outside of work; and do! I've made plenty of good friends while working here. The work is fulfilling, as we are actually building something of significance. You can go on classroom...
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The product team sometimes has difficulty seeing a feature through to full completion because they want to focus on the next big thing. This can be frustrating to watch.
Advice to Management
See new features through to completion! It's better to have 5 amazing products/features than 20 half-finished features!
Top Hat2019-02-15 - Helpful (1)
"A fantastic workplace"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Top Hat full-time for less than a year
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- Personally touched by the product and the amazing culture that is entirely employee driven and very organic - People who work here are second to none - the best asset to the company - Management is stellar; open communication is the key and it starts from the top down - Great Colleagues - Inclusive environment - Lots of potential for development/growth - There is no shortage to do interesting work, excellent compensation,...
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No downsides of working for Top Hat
Top Hat2019-08-13 - Helpful (2)
"Fun place to work and grow for engineers"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Top Hat full-time for more than a year
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- People in Top Hat are fun, smart and very friendly. The managers do care about the employees and actively help them grow in their career paths. - There are a lot of opportunities to learn latest tech, development processes and best practices across the engineering department. The engineering weeks happening a few times per year is especially fun to participate and helpful for sharping the tools. They also give new...
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- Team Orgs change a bit frequently in past years so it may be a bit hard to adapt sometimes. - There are times where employees are confused by the exec's or other departments' messages during communications. I appreciate colleagues's efforts to raise the questions and I hope the exec can always give clear answers on such occasions.
Top Hat2019-07-24 "Fun work environment"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Top Hat full-time for more than a year
Pros
Amazing people and work culture
Cons
No work/life balance if you want to be successful and poor forecasting
Top Hat2019-07-17"No room for growth, bro culture, high volume"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Top Hat full-time for less than a year
Pros
- free lunches - travel to cool places
Cons
- management would rather you make 100 calls/100 emails/ day instead of actually being strategic in outreach - not true b2b sales, you're selling to professors who ultimately aren't the ones who buy the product - no room for growth - enterprise sales there is selling partnerships, not the kind of experience that you need to accel your career - inexperienced management - music blasting throughout the sales floor...
Show MoreTop Hat2019-07-30- Helpful (4)
"Great place to start your sales career!"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Top Hat full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
- Great Lunches - Unbelievable benefits including an LSA to expense TTC/Gym - Easy product to learn/demo - Managers/co-workers are young and friendly, always willing to help - Always busy, time flies! - Get to travel to fantastic campuses and work with great people - Pay is fantastic if you put in the work - Amazing office, right in Yorkville next to the subway - Mentorship is offered for those who take it -...
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- WFH days are taboo; CEO hates remote work and wants sales people in the office even though the job can be done remotely (still no WFH unanimous policy for sales floor) - Outbound sales strategy is completely out of date - Emphasis is put on sales activity and not sales strategy - CEO is extremely selfish; only wants what is best for him - Career pathing is not very well thought out - General lack of trust and transparency...
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Top Hat has tons of potential! It has an amazing product, great culture, and can definitely go on to do great things in higher education. HOWEVER, water runs downhill. The eccentric founder is still the CEO of the company and is woefully inadequate on all fronts to lead the company. I would highly suggest immediately looking for alternatives to the current CEO.
Top Hat2019-06-04 - Helpful (3)
"Continuous Opportunity to Grow and Make an Impact"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Top Hat full-time for less than a year
Pros
The mission of the organization: Top Hat focuses on making teaching fun an effective. What it means by that is changing the university experience from old school lecture environment to active learning, focusing on student outcomes and engagement before, during, and after class. In addition to that, the organization is striving to make education more affordable to facilitate learning. In essence, what this does is making...
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Our weak points are on the flip side of our strengths. Change management: Change management efforts have been developed over time, however, there is an opportunity to work on change management practices further to continue a rollout of new initiatives at a proper pace. We need to make change management more methodical to continue to succeed. Infrastructure: There is an opportunity to develop infrastructure further...
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Continue transparency Focus on developing people within the organization Continue developing the strategic plan and communicating it using a variety of channels Develop key infrastructure for success
Top Hat2019-06-03 "Good company, not without its growing pains"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Top Hat full-time for more than a year
Pros
- Decent salary - Good work life balance (in engineering at least, YMMV in other departments) - Good opportunities for growth
Cons
- Frequent reorgs/changes from upper management
Top Hat2019-06-11- Helpful (1)
"Good people, rough vision"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Top Hat full-time for more than a year
Pros
Great people. Teams on the AM side were great, inclusive, energetic and helpful. Catered lunches were great and the building itself had a ton of amenities. Very smart individual contributors on the eng, and dev team.
Cons
Very confusing goals, very micrometric driven. This made it feel very robotic and nonstrategic. Constant change. Commission, targets, and company direction. High turnover
Advice to Management
Look at outside leadership with backgrounds similar to the CRO. This gives a fresh perspective from management that have implemented strategies that differ from the TH norm. Define clear career growth opportunities that don't always lead to team leads or management
Top Hat2019-06-12 "Good place to learn"
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No opinion of CEOI worked at Top Hat full-time for less than a year
Pros
Hands-on experience, good office space
Cons
People work too hard. pressure to do the same
Top Hat2019-05-28
Top Hat Response
April 11, 2019 – Director, Talent
Thank you for your thoughtful and honest review. We love to see that our team members are genuinely happy working here. We appreciate your constructive feedback and advice. Please feel free to drop us a line anytime you have feedback :)