Braintrust reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(41 total reviews)
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Adam Jackson

80% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Braintrust has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 41 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Braintrust employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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41 reviews
5.0
Oct 12, 2021

What a network!

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Pros

Very accomplished team members who are supportive and all working towards making Braintrust great. No politics, just hard workers who like to help each other out.

Cons

Zero foosball tables when there is no office to go to. All remote work.

5.0
Oct 12, 2021

Incredibly place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Everyone is incredibly driven and hard-working - Supportive leadership team - they want everyone at the company to succeed - Very transparent - always know what is going on (good and bad) across the different teams. - Founders are strong leaders and provide clear updates / vision on all-hands - Fast paced environment - growing rapidly, very exciting time to join

Cons

- Fully remote, which can be challenging to get to know co-workers however does provide a lot of flexibility

2.0
Oct 5, 2021

Strange culture, siloed, short sighted

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Pros

It's fully remote if that's your preferred working style, and many of the employees are hard workers. From a market addressability standpoint, Braintrust is in a good position: there are always needs for technical talent.

Cons

Perhaps it's because it's fully remote, but there's not much of a culture within the business. There are values, and time is paid during each all hands to call out people for fulfilling them in various ways, but it all felt very need-to-know and sterile during my time there; no real focus on getting to know the people you work with other than these weekly all-hands where 5 people talk and 35 strangers stare at each other. My experience was that it was a weird confederacy of teams as opposed to an actual company. It's siloed and information sharing is limited, however there is a desire to micromanage. The means of communication is also very strange. The default is to not have meetings and instead have discourse occur through Google doc comments. This leads to just tons and tons of back and forth with limited decision-making. The executive team is unwilling to put resources towards building the product or truly investing in the marketing function, and there's a consistent default to using contractor labor, which can leave some teams without a ton of institutional knowledge. The founders of the company have no real interest in the freelance community they need to operate the platform. For them, this is an economic experiment using a token to incentivize the community to work for something other than USD as often as possible.

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