Do not Recommend - Financial Operations Sonder Employee Review

2.0
Apr 27, 2020
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Pros

I loved the people and the Denver office is wonderful. Fun culture, casual environment, dog friendly office, & flexible.

Cons

The pay was okay, but the benefits are terrible. PTO for hourly employees is an industry low (if you are salaried you get unlimited, hourly employees do not), no 401K match, and health insurance premium is very high. Company is not organized and the communication between departments is lacking. All this being said, I still enjoyed my time working there. I was laid off with the March lay offs of around like 400 employees. I was fine with it, it is a bad situation and it happens. That is until I looked on LinkedIn and saw that only a few weeks after layoffs, Sonder was hiring again in the Financial Operations department. What a joke. Sonder put several people out of work from that department, people who had families and bills to pay. To turn around and rehire someone new (only weeks after they laid off a significant amount of people) instead of offering to move people from that department around to a different position and retaining the employees that they had is so disrespectful.

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Sonder Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave this thoughtful review. We couldn’t agree more about the people and culture in our Denver office, and are happy to learn you loved it too. Our LinkedIn profile needs to be updated — that was a mistake. We’re working with our Talent team now to confirm that roles we’re unable to fill at this time, including in the Financial Operations department, are removed from the site. When we’re able to start expanding our teams again, many of those who were impacted by layoffs will be first on our outreach list. When it comes to benefits, we always strive to give as much to our people as we can afford, and as we grow and become more stable, we want to do more. We hope you understand that our packages are in-line with similar stage start-ups, and it simply isn’t rational today to spend more given our financial position. We’d love to offer the same level of benefits as more mature companies some day. We do offer other great benefits to support our people, such as stock options for all employees and Sonder stay credits. If there’s anything we can do to help you during this transition, please reach out to hrbp@sonder.com.

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5.0
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Cons

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1.0
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Cons

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