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
2.0
Feb 15, 2023

Sinking

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very flexible work/life balance More paid holidays than most other businesses

Cons

Still trying to figure out who they are Good people getting let go with no metrics to back it up Leadership is absent

1.0
Feb 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun work environment (at first) work from home part time PTO

Cons

managers won't talk to you about problems unrealistic expectations continuously got stricter and stricter as time went on

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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