GoDaddy reviews

3.9

70% would recommend to a friend

(3,429 total reviews)
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Aman Bhutani

75% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

GoDaddy has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,429 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GoDaddy 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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3K reviews
1.0
Nov 11, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Unlimited vacation policy. * If you are a new hire you will probably be paid well, to start anyway. * Work life balance is OK depending on your team and the time of year.

Cons

* This company seems to have lost its respect for the people who built it. * Ever since new management has come in, benefits have been getting worse and worse. * New hires are getting way more stock options and better pay then most of the engineers who have been here for years. * Management favors employees that then brought with them from other companies, treating everyone else pretty much like crap. This is causing experienced engineers who have been at the company 5+ years to quit. * Management seems hell bent on changing technology stacks all over the company without a real clear vision with what they want to replace it with.

1.0
Jul 9, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a stable and mature public company. You get to work from home and there aren't too many meetings.

Cons

Pervasive cost-cutting especially since the start of 2024 has not only made it hard to be efficient, but also stifles career advancement. The only way to progress in your career is to leave. Long-time employees will probably stay because they have big stock grants waiting to vest, but for anybody else the pay is junk. The cost-cutting has gone way beyond what is reasonable. Tools keep disappearing even if they weren't that expensive to begin with. They want to get rid of Slack to save money. Slack. Maybe they won't, but it keeps getting floated as a credible idea so I wouldn't put it past them. Security is the #1 priority, but there is no foresight or long-term plan so the security edicts come in as a "Request of the Week" to be completed yesterday (usually we have 1-2 weeks). It kills morale because aside from providing no value to customers, we have to drop everything to get it done in time. It almost looks like they are trying to make the working environment unpleasant on purpose to create attrition so they can avoid the bad publicity of mass layoffs. Plus that way, the people who are left will be so demotivated that they won't expect raises.

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GoDaddy Response
2y
Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We're sorry to hear that your experience is not going as expected. We are committed to hearing all employee feedback, and will continue to improve the experience and benefits for all employees.
5.0
Jun 7, 2016

Top 100 Best places to work for, need I say more?

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Everything and then some of what you'd want in a company. Great leadership, great vision, dynamic, growing business model, fantastic people, and opportunity for career pathing and promotion galore!

Cons

If I could think of some, I'd put them here, I just can't. There's simply no aspect of the company that is more negative than positive.

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GoDaddy Response
9y
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. It is our employees who help drive the future of our company. Keep the feedback coming so we can continue to make this the best place to work!
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