Great people, but awful management and CEO - Anonymous employee Grubhub Employee Review

3.0
Dec 1, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

People are great—many of the team members are sharp, dedicated, and want to innovate. I formed closer bonds and friendships here than any other place I've worked. HR team does a good job of trying to keep employees happy with diverse events, food, and other surprises. Office is generally a fun and laid-back environment.

Cons

Middle management ties everything in knots. Product Team (ie the team responsible for maintaining and innovating the website) is terribly disorganized, mismanaged, and over-rewarded despite minimal contributions, and two royally massive screwups (including the famed disastrous relaunch of Seamless.com). There's also blatant favoritism towards the Grubhub / Chicago side of the company. The CEO tried to run Seamless into the ground and everyone in NY was aware of it. Grubhub management put in charge ahead of Seamless' management, site restructuring with Grubhub as a priority (the main reason for the site relaunch fiasco), hiring in Chicago over NY, forcing NY people out by hiring people to be their bosses, but they're in Chicago, trying to run and position Seamless as an 'authentic new york' brand when the management isn't even in New York.

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Cons

Grubhub fails to honor its own guidelines and penalizes its top-performing drivers. Work is highly inconsistent; the higher your stats, the fewer (and worse) offers you receive, making financial momentum impossible. The role also carries high safety risks, forcing drivers to rush through traffic under strict time constraints. The company lacks basic empathy and support during emergencies. After a traffic accident on the job, Grubhub showed zero concern for my safety. Instead, their rigid automation penalized my driver metrics for missed offers because I was physically unable to update my app status while handling the collision. To top it off, the final straw was receiving an automated email accusing me of "abusing the system" simply for qualifying for the guaranteed Grubhub contributions I rightfully earned.

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