Ableton Software Developer reviews

3.4

29% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)
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Gerhard Behles

45% approve of CEO

7% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
3.0
Jul 22, 2024
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Pros

Interesting engineering problems and friendly colleagues. Good work/life balance; many people work a shortened week, i.e. 4 days/week.

Cons

The two rounds of layoffs that have happened in the past year caused a lot of stress, plus a salary freeze has been in place for nearly two years. This has contributed to very low morale and high rates of burnout. Love of the product seems to be more important than building specialist skills to industry standards; there aren't enough incentives to encourage people to develop professionally.

3.0
Jun 21, 2024
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Pros

* The people are amazing, everyone is passionate and (in my experience) wonderful to work with. What's more I felt like I could communicate my thoughts and feelings to my manager and team, and have genuine conversations without feeling judged. * Of course the product itself is great, it felt good to be contributing to something that felt important and relevant to my interests

Cons

* Really not great pay, especially in these trying economic times. They haven't had even inflationary raises in the past few years, so essentially I felt like I was just getting less money with time. * Nearly all the appealing benefits disappeared (urban sports, headspace, a Push device etc). It felt like a big bummer to be told I'd receive these things and it was never followed through with due to lack of funds * Career progression felt difficult and vague, gaining responsibility and independence was a challenge due to niche/legacy nature of the technology

5.0
Feb 22, 2024
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Pros

Significant self improvement/ learning time available. Working with some of the best audio devs in the business. A great deal of team automomy and ability to move position internally. Relaxed yet efficient working culture with zero crunch.

Cons

Salary was below the market rate. Sometimes a lack of clear guidance from people higher in product led to a lot of going in circles in meetings. A dev process overly burdened by red tape, code ownership, and knowledge silos.

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