Bold Penguin reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(72 total reviews)

Ilya Bodner

70% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Bold Penguin has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 72 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bold Penguin 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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72 reviews
3.0
Oct 11, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote culture and flexible PTO

Cons

Everything has to go through leadership, even the smallest changes, there is no trust in employees that don't have "chief" in their title. Communication is terrible between departments

4.0
Mar 17, 2023

Pretty good company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great remote culture. Lots of cool remote events. Good people, leadership isn't bad.

Cons

They tested 4 day work week and said it was going great but have switched back to 5. Semi understandable given the economic outlook currently. There seems to be some growth tension but again, understandable. This year they gave many a ~1% raise

1.0
Jan 17, 2023

Incompetence, Nepotism and Free Swag!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

– Free swag! They love to give out swag, like pride themselves on it. – Remote culture which seems to work very well. – Pays employees decently.

Cons

– Incompetence when it comes getting pay checks out on time. – Made the majority of employees pay back taxes in the range of thousands of dollars since they failed to properly set up Paycor. - Had employees personal info like phone numbers leaked which resulted in employees company wide getting scam text messages from someone posing as one of the founders. – Culture runs on nepotism, undermining each other within and between teams, a culture of blatant favoritism. – Employees have a shelf life of about 18 months, case in point look at the rash of VPs that have left this place during the second half of 2022.

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