Invoca reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(76 total reviews)
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Gregg Johnson

89% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

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5.0
Feb 29, 2016

Exciting Company, Great Start up Experience

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Invoca is an leading company in an emerging category, with incredible growth potential. There are several strong pros to the Invoca experience. First, you get to be a part of creating and growing a company. With that, YOU get to develop technologies, or develop process, or define how Invoca moves forward. Also, the start up experience offers a lot of benefit to your professional development, and makes you very marketable. In addition, Invoca is a fun place with great people. Yes, we have lots of perks (food, events, swag, etc), but what is important is that the people here enjoy working together and foster a collaborative environment. Lastly, Invoca pays well, and offers stock options - that doesn't happen often! I almost forgot - Invoca is located in downtown Santa Barbara!

Cons

As with any company, there are some challenges. You need to be adaptable, and able to adjust to change. The company changes often and fast. Take advantage of it, and find out how to be a part of it. Also, communication can be challenging, especially as the company grows outside of Santa Barbara.

5.0
Jan 28, 2016
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Pros

Invoca has a company culture, unlike anything I have seen prior. Management cares enough to listen to employees, and while it's not perfect they respond in kind. There IS such a thing as a free lunch. Our head of People and Culture bleeds for every employee he sends an offer letter to. Mark is a talented story teller and will take the company to amazing new heights. My biggest love with this company is how we care for our customers. The entire company bends over backward to build amazing products for our incredibly valuable customers. Product listens to CS, CS listens to Sales, Management listens to each department and sets roadmaps based on customers ACTUAL needs, not just a board member who is looking for a better return.

Cons

The new CEO comes in and changes everything (again) those changes and the success that usually follows gets attributed to the new CEO. Often times leaving out the people in the trenches, doing the hard work. There are many people putting in long hours with little or no relief insight when it comes to headcount in order to lower the burden or daily tasks and raise our overall customer focus.

5.0
Dec 2, 2015

Not for semi-smart people

Anonymous employee
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Pros

New CEO is fearless and smart, joined six months ago and made all of the overdue hard decisions to set the company on an accelerated path. He had to send off some of the early-stage people who are great for the first chapter, but who choke on scale and planning. This will be his third IPO, and he has a calm, cool demeanor with an intense smarts, easy laugh, "carpe diem" tattoo, and drive to win. The company is packed with much-higher-than-average IQs who wear flip flops and fill coffee cups with beer from the in-house pub at the end of the day. If you're not smart, you won't make it. The culture can be shrewd and rejects those with underdeveloped intellect. And, if you're not at least a little bit interesting, you probably won't make friends. One guy can lick his elbow, lots of musicians, Olympic calibre athletes, and an endless variety of team sports. Volleyball, soccer, basketball, kickball, softball, frisbee, surfing, triathlons, and of course ping pong. Very competitive. Very "team." Lots of career opportunities and internal promotions.

Cons

The culture really does reject average intelligence and boring people. You're expected to solve a lot of problems independently and to teach and learn from those around you, quickly. If you can't hold a complex conversation without preparation, this probably won't work. And, if you get bummed out when an incompetent person is terminated, then you're going to be miserable. It's not the managers who do the firing so much, it's the culture that is inclusive of only high performers and drivers. Invoca's product is complex and I think that's why you have to be smart and self-driven to make the cut.

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