Headspace reviews

"Inauthentic" feels like the #1 leadership quality at this meditation company. Be very wary of what the CEO and CFO say: Subscriber engagement? Quality of data? Financials? Career path? Vision? Answer: "We are hoping to have this solved in a few months once we've hired another set of consultants." Then they'll ignore you until they find some unsuspecting new hire/investor to help "increase the help and happiness of the world". The VPs appear to be completely powerless and leadership ensures they remain impotent. If you are hired to "manage" a team at Headspace, be prepared to have an inherent lack of trust from your direct reports since you're an emperor with no clothes. This is not a company that advances employees internally. The current employee off-boarding process does not resemble anything close to the company value of "kindness". Gender issues are vaguely addressed but no material action is taken.

Despite the flexibility and slow moving nature of the company, this is not a place to grow your career. It's very easy to get stuck here hoping Leadership will either be replaced or finally learn how to run a company as you cheer for the mission, but you realize after a year that you stuck around because of the high salary and vision that will never come to fruition. Leadership is inexperienced and needs to be replaced. No one knows how to run a digital subscription company and the few external people brought in with this experience always end up leaving within months. The engineering team is a black hole that moves at an inexcusable pace given their size and nothing major has changed with the Product since I joined the team 1.5 years ago. We've tripled in size but the product has stayed the same. The company is burning cash and not producing subscribers.