Sphero needs to learn to manage its growth. - Anonymous employee Sphero Employee Review

3.0
Sep 18, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The work is interesting. The engineers are amazing.

Cons

Management has been unable to keep great people there. The company grew very quickly after the success of its BB-8 robot and then drastically reduced its workforce about a year later.

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Sphero Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. As a startup, we often take big risks to achieve success. While BB-8 was a huge success in 2015, we realized that licensed products did not provide a long-term sustainable business model and we needed to refocus our business on our core brand and successes. We agree with you that our people are our greatest asset and without them, we could never create the products that inspire the creators of tomorrow. Reducing our workforce was an extremely difficult thing we had to do as a company to grow at a more sustainable pace in the future. As always, if you would like to share more about your specific experiences, please reach out to the People team at people@sphero.com so that we can set up a time to talk. Thanks again for the feedback that will help make Sphero a better place to work.

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