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4.1

75% would recommend to a friend

(43 total reviews)
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Zack Urlocker

100% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

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4.2

Compensation and benefits

4.1

Culture & values

4.1

Work/Life balance

4.1

Career opportunities

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Senior management

Gatsby (CA) has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 43 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Gatsby (CA) 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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43 reviews
5.0
Apr 2, 2021

No company is perfect, but Gatsby genuinely tries hard to be its best self.

Software developer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Intelligent & kind teammates who are invested in one another. This goes for ICs and management. Diversity of the group has also improved consistently over the past year. - Truly interesting work -Continued career development + opportunities for advancement -Benefits are great (excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, learning & development stipend, etc)

Cons

- We surfaced some issues last year, which seemed to stem mostly from a previous iteration of the leadership team. Leadership has now changed significantly (and for the better imo). Many of these issues are pretty common for startups at this stage from what I've seen, which no one used as an excuse. Was glad to see the org hold itself to a higher standard and make quick changes.

5.0
Apr 1, 2021

Scaling up nicely!

Manager
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company went through some changes a year ago and has come out ahead with new leaders, new product managers, new developers. There's a lot of positive energy. And why not? The Gatsby Conference had 11,000 people. We just launched Gatsby 3 and Gatsby Cloud hosting. There are hundreds of thousands of people using Gatsby. Half the new hires have been women, which is great. -Fully distributed -Good squad organization with autonomy and accountability -Diverse culture including women and under-represented minorities -Focused on building a growing cloud business -Strong executive leaders -Good benefits

Cons

The company went through a rough patch a year ago and some people are still angry about how the founders handled it. But half the company is new, so let's move past that. Some of the managers are not as experienced, but we are getting there. Remote is also not for everyone. Hopefully we can get everyone together in person later this summer.

1.0
Mar 21, 2021

If you aren’t a white male American, run the other direction.

Staff software engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Incredible talent and low egos at the IC level. These are some of the most thoughtful and bright people I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with. The open source community around Gatsby as a framework is incredible, engaged, and enthusiastic. The work is legitimately interesting. Decent benefits

Cons

The company had huge turnover in the last year, effectively sliding it into an earlier start-up stage than its notoriety would indicate. They can no longer support senior specialization or junior career growth. Leadership is a combination of bigoted and incompetent; they regularly create and uphold systems that prioritize already overrepresented groups in tech. Regularly gets valuable feedback from employees, commit to make changes, and then either never follows through or changes things only to revert them soon thereafter. Product is built on cowboy coding, repeatedly abandoning things in prototype stage for the next shiny thing and then building on top of and maintaining unfinished and brittle architecture. Touts diversity and remote friendliness but prioritizes PST time zone and consistently underpays outside of America.

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