Headspace reviews

2.5

29% would recommend to a friend

(381 total reviews)
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Tom Pickett

17% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

Headspace has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 381 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Headspace employee rating is 35% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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381 reviews
4.0
Oct 29, 2023
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Pros

Talented teams. Smart people. Great pay. Great benefits. Very reasonable work expectations. Good work/life balance. Healthy culture.

Cons

Leadership is focused on any short term win at all costs. Willing to throw away mission for a few extra bucks. Rarely look at the long term. Don't care about users. Monetization metrics drive company actions, no balance with other KPIs. Much of the leadership is ex-meta, Intuit, or hulu. The mindset shows. Focused on discounts as a selling strategy, not improving the user experience or increasing value for members. Not a lot of connection to the mission or mindfulness within the company. PMs make all product decisions, PDs are not listened or treated as active partners in product. A PM's one off-the-cuff idea will win over a researched and proven-out one every time. Not a good place for career growth if you want to work on your craft or have a voice. PMs get sole credit for every project your team does. They rarely give any shoutouts or recognition to others on the team, such as engineers or product designers that actually do all the work. PDs are rarely included in meetings on their projects, so often a game of telephone without being able to contribute to solving the problem and framing the solution. Opportunities that arise from research almost never get prioritized. Very little design thinking or iterative UX/UI. Product overall has terrible UX. Poor choice of management because it's a lot of wasted talent and resources. PDs have great insights on what to build, but their voices are silenced.

1.0
Mar 12, 2020

Really bad

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great mission Nice people Beautiful office Fair pay Great food and perks

Cons

This place isn’t exactly a well-oiled machine. There are way too many incompetent people in leadership roles (including the CEO)! Company is reactive and paranoid about the competition. Strategy is constantly changing, and you can’t help but wonder if anyone knows what they’re doing.

1.0
Sep 16, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Catered Food, Good Benefits, Good workspace

Cons

Mismanagement - The leadership team clearly does not not understand how to manage a team. Starting with the fact that it grew too fast 100-300 in just over a year and then expecting growth to accelerate as function of employee count. Understand that your product is too expensive and in the same price as Netflix, why would anyone want to pay the same price as Netflix? I was at the company just under a year. I quit when i found out that my manager was demoted to the same level as me and i wasn't told for 3 weeks. It showed up on the internal org charts but nobody wanted to tell me. I decided it was better to quit than work for a company that really does not know how to manage its employees The company has been facing a deluge of employees quitting. I don't think Rich or the management team understands what it takes to keep employees happy.

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Headspace Response
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It is my absolute priority to ensure that our employees can thrive in a happy and healthy environment. I'm sorry that this wasn't your experience at Headspace and I will use your feedback to help inform how we can continue to make positive changes moving forwards. Wishing you the very best in your new endeavor. Lou Cartwright VP People
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