Alchemer reviews

3.2

45% would recommend to a friend

(160 total reviews)

Marty Mrugal

62% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Alchemer has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 160 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Alchemer 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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160 reviews
1.0
Aug 30, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Met several co-workers who are generally friendly and helpful. Open PTO and 401k match.

Cons

Incredible amount of turnover across entire organization - especially managers and Sr. Leadership. I was skeptical of this when I accepted role because I read the reviews and thought…perhaps just a handful of disgruntled employees…There is a trend here that spans years of excessive and constant turnover. Felt like I was sold a particular picture during interview process and actual role starkly different. Have heard this same experience from multiple co-workers when it comes to OTE, hitting targets, opportunities, and actual duties and KPIs. During my time this led to overworked employees with the expectation that you continue to do more without receiving proper support, compensation, appreciation, or recognition. Management generally absent or quitting. But the moment you make a mistake, this will be pointed out to you (not in a constructive way). Product incredibly unstable with multiple outages on a weekly basis. Goals constantly change with extremely conflicting initiatives and focus from quarter to quarter/month-month. Some of the recent overly positive reviews attribute this to employees not being capable of dealing with change or being wrong fit, but I would argue that it’s due to upper management constantly experimenting with new initiatives without proper high level direction and taking employees for granted. Every week there are multiple emails from HR with latest leave. Please be cautious and don’t assume anything. Would never recommend that someone work at this company. It’s an unfortunate experience.

2.0
Nov 5, 2020

Some Good, Mostly Bad

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Genuinely great coworkers, the usual snacks and drinks in the kitchen, good benefits for the size of the company.

Cons

Completely nepotistic management structure that pulled a majority of the C-level executives from the same former company. A CEO who struggles not to condescend to or shout down rank and file employees. Consistently awful decision making that seems to always default to making the worst of any of the available choices usually to the detriment of employees Compensation is consistently below market.

1.0
Jun 30, 2021

A sad sinking ship...

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- good 401k match - individual contributors have banned together and try to take care of each other

Cons

It is truly sad what has become of this company. It used to be a "great place to work" (in fact, that *used to* actually be one of their core values), but with a new CEO introduced ~3 years ago, the place has become a sinking ship (people actually refer to it as the Titanic). The CEO is the root of all the issues, as far as I'm concerned. His inability to let his managers and teams do their jobs without micro-managing and standing in their way (along with his giant ego) is ASTOUNDING. The culture he has produced is nothing short of toxic. Over the past 2 years they have lost dozens (many many dozens) of talented and capable people as a direct result of his selfish and shortsighted "vision" which lacks any creativity, resource, or depth. Despite astronomically high turnover, they still refuse to increase hiring budgets, they refuse to replace talent that has walked away (resulting in those left behind becoming even more exhausted, and then leaving, and rinse and repeat). They refuse to acknowledge there's even a problem - the denial is so real it became painful to sit in all hands meetings hearing how "strong" the future looks. My final breaking point came in early 2021 when leadership started encouraging managers and employees to lie to customers and prospects about pricing, capabilities of the platform, the underlying technology, and the professional service offerings - all to save their bottom line, which is still suffering (despite implementing a new pricing model to literally reverse the company's longest standing customer promise to never 'charge per response', and other shallow tactics to get $$ in the door every quarter.) I stuck it out here for over 5 years, hoping that the place I came to work would eventually be revived to its former self, but sadly I finally had to let go of that notion and jump off the sinking ship before it was too late. Sadly, being true to myself, I could never recommend working here to anyone.

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