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Figure Eight

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Figure Eight reviews

3.9

68% would recommend to a friend

(80 total reviews)

Mark Brayan

71% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Figure Eight has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 80 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Figure Eight employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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80 reviews
5.0
Sep 26, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Seasoned executive team that is focus on success - Extremely smart employees who are very open and easy to talk to - Plenty of free food and fun events - Always something interesting to work on with lots of hard problems to solve - Great amount of flexibility to different projects and drive the direction

Cons

None to report. This is by far the best company I have worked at with amazing people all around. If I was forced it would be that we are in a very complex and new space which means there is uncertainty at times but this also means that we get to help drive the future of AI.

5.0
Sep 26, 2018

Developer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Figure Eight is by far the best company I have ever worked at. Their approach is the best of what most other companies have combined. I immediately felt at home and was able to use all my expertise and creativity easily. Office is a great place to work in, no construction noise and the offices and desks are more than ample. Figure Eight also cares about each employee's future and holds goals and values in high regard. Work from home Wednesdays if you want, flexible. Overall I was surprised and how mature the company is and feels like the future is bright. High standard of co-worker

Cons

Difficult post interview process and only 1 shower.

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Figure Eight Response
7y
Thanks for your review and feedback. We will definitely be working on our recruiting and candidate experience. As for having only 1 shower, that is something we should talk about as a company. Anything is possible, but we need to make sure this is something we all want to work on.
5.0
Sep 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I have been working with a very talented people in Machine learning team since I joined. The team is very diverse in terms of talents, skills, experience, ethnicity and gender. We have lots of interaction for each project which help us to learn alot on different problems and tools and methods to solve them! My progress and learning has been very fast due to working with such a diverse team I have many interesting experiences such as, attending the best conferences in my field, giving talks on my projects and speaking at those conferences, teaching workshops, contributing to products and customer projects in a broad range of topics within my field. The company is very supportive of the employees and employees are very friendly and caring to each other! What I love about working at Figure Eight is that I get a lot of opportunities to experiment with new things and starting new projects and sharing my ideas and they are always supportive and respective of it! I like working with my managers in Technology teams and think they are very understanding, caring and open-minded ! We have work from home days where we focus on projects even though the office particularly the machine learning and technology area is a quite and pleasant place to work.

Cons

Due to all recent changes in the company as now an AI company, there are things that needs to be restructured within and between teams so the company delivers the best AI services and products which could be challenging sometimes and needs the employee to adjust quickly and learn fast. This might not be actually a cons to people who loves challenges and learning and working with new tools (like myself)

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