Pay slipping below industry standard - Anonymous employee WP Engine Employee Review

4.0
Dec 31, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

CEO is a good sensible leader. Company has a good business model and recurring revenue.

Cons

Pay slipping below industry average. Very slim, to no pay rises in 2025.

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WP Engine Response
6mo
Hello and thank you for taking the time to leave feedback informed by your experience at WP Engine thus far. In regards to pay, WP Engine's compensation philosophy is to pay competitive to market based on cost of talent data using high tech salaries surveys for benchmarking. We review our salary ranges on an annual basis and then conduct an annual salary planning review for merit based increases. We'd love to hear more about your experience so we can work to better understand your concerns and address them. If you haven't done so already, we'd encourage you to reach out to your Employee Experience Business Partner to continue the conversation. Thank you again for sharing, we hope to hear from you!

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We appreciate you taking the time to share such a thoughtful review. While we're glad you had an overall positive experience in regards to feeling supported by your manager, teammates, and feel Heather, our CEO is an amazing person. We agree! We are sorry to hear you didn't feel like there were opportunities for promotions. We know you no longer work here at WP Engine, but if you have any other thoughts you'd like to share so that we can learn more about what could've gone better, you're welcome to reach out to anybody on our Employee Experience Team to do so. Thank you again and we wish you the best in future endeavors.
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We appreciate your candid feedback, and the time you took to leave a review. We're glad to hear you had a positive experience with colleagues, our remote-first culture, work-life balance, and benefits. Those are all important parts of the employee experience, and we're pleased they stood out. We're also appreciate your view on where you feel we fell short. Feedback about compensation, career growth, leadership connection, and organizational change are meaningful, even when they're difficult to hear. While we can't comment on specific business decisions, we appreciate your perspective. Thank you again for telling us about your experience at WP Engine.
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