Hourly employees need to be taken care of - OnBoarding Agent Sonder Employee Review

3.0
May 2, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

the concept of the company itself is fresh and interesting, they mostly seem to try to break standards and avoid becoming too mainstreamed and corporate-feeling. there's a lot of openness/transparency throughout the offices.

Cons

the hourly pay rate is absolutely horrible, especially when considering the benefits. as someone who has an insurance policy separate from Sonder, the benefit incentives are very small for the amount of labor, extreme variation in day to day tasks, and the amount of TLC bload-sweat-and-tears expected by the company. My rent alone is just under 50 percent of my take home pay. Some days I'm a manual laborer, others I'm in a warehouse doing inventory, receiving, and heavy lifting. Other days I'm styling and assisting photographers -- I would be thrilled to wear all these hats and do a much better job if I was making a fair wage.

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Sonder Response
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Please reach out to the People team. We want to learn more from you. Our goal is to build the most amazing employee experience in the world for all of our employees. We appreciate all of your hard work and want to make sure you know Sonder cares. We are about to deploy our new performance, calibration and merit cyclical process and are building a self driven career path program called Triple P (Passion, Purpose, and Personal Commitment) to allow all of our employees to define their careers and work hard to achieve their goals. The career path program is coming in a few months.

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5.0
Nov 11, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Culture was great. We had a lot of fun building something that could have gone to the moon. Best employer I ever had until we closed our doors.

Cons

It's closed now. Unfortunately had to happen very abruptly,

1.0
Jul 16, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible work from home and ok pay

Cons

Company's leadership was a mess and company had to file for Chapter 7

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