Invoca reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(161 total reviews)
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Gregg Johnson

89% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Invoca has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 161 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Invoca 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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161 reviews
4.0
Apr 2, 2019

Room to grow

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, growing company, nice facilities.

Cons

Scaling a start up has a lot of growing pains. Would also do well to have more women in leadership.

1.0
Apr 2, 2019

Worst experience of my professional career.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They'll fly you down to Santa Barbara for company events and for onboarding. They'll let you expense all your meals while you're there as well.

Cons

Once training is over you're on your own. When you ask questions you're told to "figure it out" because they have "excellent documentation" which consists of private google drive folders. You couldn't find the answers even if you wanted to and the information is usually out of date or incorrect when you do find it. The product team just goes ahead with releases without telling the people who are supposed to support it. No training, no heads up, no roll-out plans. If you're in a remote office or a remote employee you are not setup up for success. You will have a feeling of dread when you go in to work in the morning.

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Invoca Response
7y
Thank you for the feedback, we appreciate both positive and constructive criticism to help us make Invoca the best workplace possible. We are taking your suggestions about onboarding, training, and support for employees in satellite offices to heart. We just completed a project to centralize and update our technical documentation, and are building a more rigorous onboarding process. We are also helping managers in our Santa Barbara headquarters to understand the full extent of support they need to provide remote employees to help them be most productive and successful.
1.0
Apr 2, 2019

Total Train wreck

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some very smart people still left in the company because of the lack of competition Invoca has with other SaaS companies in Santa Barbara.

Cons

The company pays 15-30% below market rate for nearly all positions and locations. This has a compounding affect on the caliber of people in all departments, particularly management. There are incompetent people in key positions that offer no vision or leadership whatsoever, making it nearly impossible to execute day to day responsibilities with any efficiency or scale. There is no cross-departmental collaboration whatsoever, and CS is seen as expendable second class citizens, which is mostly seen in services, which is total chaos. There is clearly a gambit taking place with top leadership to see if the company can be acquired before collapsing, so there is a lot of risk associated with joining this company.

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Invoca Response
7y
At Invoca, we believe it’s critical to pay all of our employees fairly. We work closely with an industry standard salary benchmarking company to ensure that compensation is competitive for companies of our size, revenue, and geography for each role. We regret that you felt that Invoca is not doing well. 2018 was the most successful year in company history, and we are focused on building a world-class business over the long term, where employees can build great careers and make meaningful contributions to the business. We are sorry that you didn’t see that opportunity at Invoca.
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